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

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