Tunisia

Background The Tunisian constitution guarantees freedom of the press under “conditions laid down by law,” but the government closely controls the media. Additionally, the Press Law criminalizes defamation, and those who violate it can be imprisoned and fined.Freedom House, “Map of Press...

- Posted on 07/Aug/2009; tagged in Tunisia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

ONI Blog: Tunisian Internet Agency Admits to Testing Western Companies' Censorship Software

At the third annual Arab Bloggers Meeting this week, it was revealed that Tunisia has been secretly testing western companies' censorship software. AB11's website recently reported that software companies offered discounts to the Tunisian government in order to test and track...

- Posted on 04/Oct/2011; tagged in Tunisia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

ONI Blog: New Data Added to ONI's Social Media Filtering Map

The OpenNet Initiative is excited to announce the addition of a full year of new data to its Social Media Filtering Map. The map gives users a visual overview where of Facebook, Flickr, Orkut, Twitter, and Youtube have been blocked since...

- Posted on 10/Aug/2011; tagged in Egypt, Tunisia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Sub-Saharan Africa, ONI, Political filtering, Social filtering

ONI Blog: New Data Added to ONI’s Global Timeline of YouTube Censorship

The OpenNet Initiative is excited to announce the addition of a full year of new data to its YouTube social media filtering timeline. "YouTube Censored: a Recent History" allows users to access a detailed visual account of when and where YouTube...

- Posted on 21/Jul/2011; tagged in Tunisia, Syria, United Kingdom, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), ONI, Social filtering

ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: June 24th, 2011

Every week, the OpenNet Initiative provides a weekly news roundup (dubbed "Threats to the Open Net") in addition to our usual in-depth blog posts. If you would like to subscribe to the RSS feed for our newsreel, our entire blog,...

- Posted on 24/Jun/2011; tagged in China, Tunisia, United Kingdom, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Europe, Threats to the Open Net

Report: West Censoring East: The Use of Western Technologies by Middle East Censors, 2010-2011

March 2011 Authored by Helmi Noman and Jillian C. York. To view this bulletin as a PDF, click here. Executive Summary The OpenNet Initiative has documented network filtering of the Internet by national governments in over forty countries worldwide. Countries use this network filtering...

- Posted on 28/Mar/2011; tagged in Bahrain, Canada, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, United States/Canada, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Political filtering, Social filtering, Internet tools filtering, Voluntary filtering, Filtering tech and software

ONI Blog: ONI Releases 2010 Year in Review

The OpenNet Initiative is proud to announce the release of its 2010 Year in Review, a collection of the year's top instances of filtering, surveillance, and information warfare around the globe. Among the year's most well-known events are the banning of Blackberry...

- Posted on 18/Mar/2011; tagged in Bahrain, China, Cuba, India, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Thailand, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Vietnam, Yemen, Afghanistan, Israel, Jordan, Pakistan, Syria, Venezuela, Turkey, Nigeria, Japan, Mexico, Australia, Italy, Bangladesh, Indonesia, United Kingdom, Lebanon, Rwanda, South Africa, United States/Canada, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Europe, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Australia/New Zealand, Legislation, Arrests and legal action, Copyright, Take-down, Human rights, Circumvention, Elections, ONI, Political filtering, Social filtering, Conflict and security filtering, IP blocking, Filtering tech and software

ONI Blog: Tunisia Shuts Off Internet Filter

Following a speech in which Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali stated that all censorship of the internet and traditional media will be halted, Tunisia appears to have shut off its Internet filtering system. At around 9:45pm local time, Tunisian news...

- Posted on 13/Jan/2011; tagged in Tunisia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Legislation, Human rights, Political filtering, Social filtering, Internet tools filtering, Filtering tech and software

ONI Blog: Tunisian Government Websites Attacked Via DDoS

The repercussions of Tunisia’s strict online censorship reached an apex in the Arab country this week as multiple DDoS attacks continue to target the government. Hackers known collectively as the Anonymous group took down at least eight government websites beginning...

- Posted on 05/Jan/2011; tagged in Tunisia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Take-down, Anonymity, Political filtering, Conflict and security filtering, DNS tampering

ONI Blog: Bahrain, Tunisia Filtering Individual Twitter Pages

Over the past few weeks, reports have trickled in to Herdict and via Twitter, alerting us of the filtering of individual Twitter pages in Tunisia and Bahrain (as well as, possibly, China). In Tunisia, the accounts of exiled activist Sami...

- Posted on 04/Jan/2010; tagged in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Social filtering