Censorship in Tunisia

Tunisia is one of the many countries whose internet is under strict regulation to the general public. On the Opennet website, it categorizes Tunisia as being mostly pervasive on internet tools, social, and political filtering, along with being selective of their conflict/security category. Tunisia claims that there is freedom of the press, which there is under their constitution, however it is only under the "conditions laid down by law". So whatever the law states controls how much freedom of press there is.

Tunisia does not only censorship technologically, they will also physically enforce this censorship. Many InternetCafes are forced to tell the government what sites people were looking at while at their Cafe. Also, if a person is looking at a site they are not allowed to be looking at, the secret police will most likely arrive at your doorstep the morning to arrest you. To keep people from talking badly about the government, journalists and human rights activists have been banned from leaving the country. Tunisia was called "the region's most authoritarian regime" in regard to civil liberties by media watchdog Reporters Without Borders because of there physical stance on preventing the flow of information to the general public.

One article I found on censorship in Tunisia, not only gives facts, but includes a first person perspective which I found helpful.