Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
Censorship in Tunisia has been an issue since the country gained independence in 1956. Though considered relatively mild under President Habib Bourguiba (1957-1987), censorship and other forms of repression have become common under his successor, President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (1987-). The latter has been listed since 1998 as one of the "10 Worst Enemies of the Press" by the Committee to Protect Journalists. Reporters Without Borders has also named Ben Ali as a leading "Predator of Press Freedom".
Tunisia is thought by many organizations to have one of the strictest Internet censoring procedures in the world. Technically, it is a transparent proxy that processes every HTTP request sent out and filters out sites based on hostnames. Empirical evidence shows that NetApp hardware was used to implement the controls (and NetCache).
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2007-10-24 15:25:00