Tunisia : Blogger, Global Voices contributor, Slim Amamou arrested today. This is a guest blog post written by Malek, from the Tunisian collective blog nawaat.org, and translated from French by Jillian C.
York. Slim Amamou. A First glimpse at the Internet Filtering in Tunisia. We learned that the censorship imposed illegally on hundreds of Tunisian blogs and websites, both Tunisians and foreigners, was “shut off” temporarily for few hours on Monday, August 16, 2010.
And although the information on this brief lifting of the censorship in the country is still contradictory – as some claimed they had no access to certain websites, while to others the same websites were accessible- it is still early to determine what really happened at the top level of Tunisian censorship, which is, remember, dark, top-secret, centralized at the highest level of the state and is never in the control of the several Tunisian ISPs, though, with an excess of zeal, they have the ability to add an extra layer of censorship to their customers.
Thus, we learned that access to Flickr, the photo sharing site (censored April 22, 2010) and video-sharing sites, blip.tv and wat.tv (respectively censored on the 22nd and 28th of April, 2010), has been restored. Click to enlarge. Slim Amamou. Officiel : @Slim404 libre. Je suis Libre.