Anyway, thanks for working on those updates, I know it’s not an obvious task :)

Karim: you should have come to the Internet Governance forum, you would have enjoyed the discussions on free speech. This is an extermely fluid concept and there is absolutely no common understanding of what it means, not even among civil society representatives.

Think you Sami for this good work.

For Tarek, you’ve said concerning Sami’s article : “I see no point in making my posts sound more politically-motivated than they are. What does the “Tunisian regime” have to do with a personal opinion I expressed on Aljazeera?”

I honestly don’t see neither how nor where Sami tried to make your post sounds “more politically-motivated than they are”. Sami reported exactly what you’ve written, then noticed that this phrase :

“ألم تتحامل علينا القنوات الفرنسية العامة منهاوالخاصة من قبل؟ ألم تتحامل علينا الصحف السويسرية؟ الاعلام الاجنبي من الشرق الى الغرب لا يتذكرنا الا في مواضع القدح والذم ويغلو في إعطاء الدروس”

which is your own phrase, uses “almost the same rhetoric as the Tunisian regime, seeing in foreign media coverage a sort of orchestrated and hatred campaign against the country”.

Tarek it is certainly your absolute right not to be “interested in politics” and not to be “involved in this debate.”, but still you can not prevent others to make any parallel between what you can write and what can be said elsewhere.

And even though you’ve done the choice not to be involved in politics, observers still conserve the moral right to report what you can say whether you like it or not. This is what freedom of speech is intended for.

Sincerly Yours
Karim

1- On Global Voices, it is not my duty to translate the whole post of the blogs that I quote or cover. I just put the links to the posts in case of people want to read them all, translate the core idea, or an important one. I don’t judge the content and I don’t give my personal opinion. I have already made clear my personal opinion on your blog. This article is only about facts, facts as you write them.

2-The whole subject of your post is about politics. The decision to shut down the embassy is politics, the ones who take it are politicians and even your description of Aljazeera is a political one: you said that Aljazeera is a TV with political agenda :

“قناة الجزيرة قناة بأجندة سياسية”

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I don’t think this is the right way of proceeding. I am not interested in politics, I am neither supporting the regime nor the opposition and I don’t want to be involved in this debate, please.