{"id":293757,"date":"2010-02-08T14:57:17","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T19:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalvoicesonline.org\/?p=121685"},"modified":"2010-02-08T14:57:17","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T19:57:17","slug":"tunisia-censhorship-again-and-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/293757","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: Censhorship Again and Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than ever before, censorship seems to become the rule in Tunisia. The last two weeks in the Tunisian blogosphere witnessed a war launched by Ammar (the nickname given to the Tunisian censorship apparatus), who has been censoring blogs arbitrarily. <\/p>\n

Following the censorship of Fatma Arabicca and Sofiene Chourabi's blogs<\/a>, two other blogs had been censored. One of them is the Free Jailed Tunisian students<\/em> <\/a>, seen in the following screen shot: <\/p>\n

\"freejailed<\/p>\n

The second blog blocked is Nocturnal Thoughts<\/em> <\/a>. The censorship of the latter created a wave of protests on the Tunisian blogosphere.<\/p>\n

Ghodwa Nahrek<\/em><\/a>(Tomorrow I will illegally immigrate) wrote: <\/p>\n

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Ammar said that he doesn\u2019t like Nocturnal Thoughts<\/em> anymore. He prefers afternoon thoughts. Nocturnal Thoughts<\/em>, the blog of our friend and brother Tarek Kahlaoui, had been censored after more than three years of continuous blogging about interesting and sensitive subjects. In Tunisia, the scissors of censorship acquired new significance. It is no onger a form of oppression and a limit to freedom of expression as it is a medal for the blogger and a certificate from the censor showing the value of a blog and the importance of the subjects it deals with. Congratulations to our friend Tarek and welcome again in the club of censored blogs.<\/div>\n

Matrka<\/a>(Hammer) blogged saying:<\/p>\n

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Blogs connect people and their potential is evolving every day. Nocturnal Thoughts<\/em>, the blog of Tarek Kahlaoui, is a good blog which deserves reading. Individuals might not be in total agreement with Tarek about one subject or another. Tarek might have a different opinion from a person or another. But the censorship of his blog is a loss. Of course, it is a loss for those who read and are interested in reading, and its censorship is a retarded action and its normal place is in the beginning of the 20th century…<\/div>\n

Samsoum<\/em><\/a> blogged under the title Ammar does not like thoughts and thinkers especially those who blog about their nocturnal thoughts<\/em> saying:<\/p>\n

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I can\u2019t believe that the blog of Tarek Kahlaoui had been censored because I forgot that \u201dAmmar the Scissors\u201c does not have a logic to follow in the field of censorship. Maybe he discovered that the subject includes thinking and difficult discourse and decided to avoid risks so he decided to censor the blog immediately and to find an argument for this censorship later on.
\nWelcome Tarek in the club of the censored bloggers and I hope that the terrorist actions of Ammar, will give you courage to enlighten us with your thoughts more than before. And my blog is open to you as long as Ammar did not pay attention to it.
\nOne is really ashamed when he knows that a professor writing in foreign newspapers and teaching the history of art abroad is censored in his own country because he dared to think.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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