WHAT do Barbra Streisand and the Tunisian president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, have in common? They both tried to block material they dislike from appearing on the internet. And they were both spectacularly unsuccessful. In 2003 Ms Streisand objected to aerial photographs of her home in Malibu appearing in a collection of publicly available coastline pictures. She sued […]
Google Earth bombing for a free Tunisia
You’ve heard of Google bombing. Here’s an instant classic piece of Google Earth bombing, courtesy of the Tunisian opposition to a rather nasty dictatorship. The premise: That even despots like Tunisia’s Ben Ali want check out their house in Google Earth:-) His palace is now smothered with YouTube video testimonies by political prisoners (turn on the YouTube layer if it isn’t already).
أشرطة الفيديو الحقوقية تحاصر قصر بن علي بقرطاج
Human rights videos besiege the Tunisian Presidential palace
Tunisia blocked access to both popular video-sharing websites, Youtube and Dailymotion, in order to prevent Tunisian netizens from watching video content featuring testimonies from former political prisoners and human rights activists. However, and as shown in this example, Tunisian cyberactivists are successful enough in besieging Carthage presidential palace, on Google Earth, with tens of human rights videos.
“Google Friend Connect”, une nouvelle paroisse pour les réseaux sociaux ?
Tel que décrit sur la page d’info de Google Friend Connect, ce nouveau service – qui vient d’être officiellement lancé – a pour but de greffer les fonctionnalités des réseaux sociaux sur les blogs et sites web afin de les rendre plus attractifs par une telle intégration. Bon d’accord… c’est vrai… rarement des expressions n’ont été aussi à la mode que web 2.0 et réseaux sociaux […]
Egypt: Facebooking the Struggle
After little less than a month following the April 6 strike, during which a number of prominent Egyptian bloggers and internet activists were arrested, preparations for the next round of a planned general strike to mark the 80th birthday of President Mubarak, on May 4, 2008, are currently spreading all over the blogosphere and the Internet. Blogger and activist Nora Younis shares some of her ideas with us about […]
Sami Ben Gharbia : La censure transforme l’homme en âne et la société en écurie
Natif de Bizerte, le blogueur tunisien Sami Ben Gharbia est un farouche défenseur de la liberté d’expression qui a préféré […]