Author Archive for Sami Ben Gharbia

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About Sami Ben Gharbia

My personal blog is at [fikra] فكرة (which means idea in Arabic). I'm also the co-founder of nawaat.org (which means the core in Arabic), a Tunisian collective blog about news and politics. I'm also the Advocacy Director at Global Voices.

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Tunisia seems to have blocked access to Facebook today. Some Tunisian bloggers in the country report being unable to access the popular social networking website and took several screenshots of the fake 404 blockpage.
Tunisia is also blocking access, permanently, to both popular video-sharing websites, Youtube (since Since November 2nd, 2007) and Dailymotion (since Septembre [...]

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Turkey: Dailymotion blocked

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Access to the french video-sharing website Dailymotion.com has been blocked in Turkey since August 2nd 2008. According to Erkan Saka, an Istanbul-based blogger, “the decision to ban the site came without any explanation.”
This is the second instance of a popular video-sharing website being blocked in Turkey. YouTube was blocked on and off over [...]

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Talk given to the Global Voices Summit 2008 Session “NGO’s and on-the ground activists: Defending the Voices” on 27th June 2008

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Talk given to the Global Voices Summit 2008 Session “Frontline Activists meet the Academy: Tools and Knowledge” on 27th June 2008

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Talk given to the Global Voices Summit 2008 Session “Living with censorship” on 27th June 2008

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Talk given to the Global Voices Summit 2008 Session “Living with censorship” on 27th June 2008

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Talk given to the Global Voices Summit 2008 Session “Citizen Media and Online Free Speech” on 27th June 2008

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