Tunisia
is carrying out one of the most massive wave of online censorship targeting
major social websites, video-sharing websites, blogs aggregators, blogs,
facebook pages and profiles. The most recent victim of this wave is flickr, the
popular and one of the best online photo-sharing website, blocked today, April
28th, 2010.
Last week, on April 22, 2010, Tunisia has added 3 more websites to its list of
banned video-sharing websites in the country. Blip.tv, metacafe.com and
vidoemo.com are not welcome aymore in the country. In early April, 2010, WAT.TV,
another social networking and media-sharing website, which is believed to be the
3rd video broadcaster on the Internet in France, has also been blocked.
The targeting of video-sharing websites by Tunisian censors started
on September 3rd, 2007, with the ban of Dailymotion, then it was the
turn of Youtube to be banned from the country's Internet on November
2nd, 2007.
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