Comments on: Silencing online speech in Tunisia

By: Liza Helfrich

Liza Helfrich — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 05:58:18 +0000

Your passion for your country practically leaps of the page. I had not previously heard about many of these censorships and am slightly impressed by the expanse of sites that they have managed to block with little or no legal reasons. This was a very informative post and the forms of censorship have definetly crossed a boundary.

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By: Hephzibah

Hephzibah — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 05:57:30 +0000

Sami,
Ilove your passion for your country and the right to freedom of speech. The right to choice, although I believe in a civil, passivist society. Ha! My dear friend is a Tunisian and I love Tunisia. It has my heart. I have a question? Are the citizens allowed internet access in their homes or kiosks? Is hacking into e-mail a “norm”. I know when talking with my friend, and he was in a kiosk, my site, browser crashed.
Tunisia is a good country with loving people. I am not in the country, yet I know of the strain of familial ties, orthodox upbringing, do not upset the boat, “don’t shame us an marry who we want; yet I cannot keep my opinion to myself when I see injustice, felt repression and feel torn between family, religion and my belief that there is a way out and cyberspace is not to be controlled as it belongs to no one. Please, before I try and move somewhere other than the US with my laptop,
give me any information on the needs of the people, those who need to be heard, women, children, whoever and I will speak. la ilaha illa ‘llah
MY HEART IS AS OPEN AS THE SKY

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Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:35:14 +0000

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By: Solana Larsen

Solana Larsen — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:57:36 +0000

I find the email filtering and hacking particularly impressive. Hate to think how someone is watching us all scramble to figure out what’s going on…

By: Nash Suleiman

Nash Suleiman — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:25:49 +0000

The far more beyond censorship. Thanks Sami for the updates.

By: Mark Stoneman

Mark Stoneman — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:06:32 +0000

Thank you for this very informative post. I had just thought of censorship in terms of site blocking and direct repression of bloggers to create fear, not also DNS attacks and this email filtering.

Talk of the DNS attacks is particularly interesting right now given that Georgian government sites also experienced such attacks. Of course, in that case it was not censorship, but cyber war, but the technologies appear to be the same.

I’m also pleased to be able to hear from sources I would otherwise be unable to read, since I no no Arabic whatsoever.