After a short hiatus, the dreaded Ammar 404 has once again attacked the Tunisian blogosphere. Ammar is the nickname given by Tunisian bloggers to the censorship machine plaguing their access to the Internet and his victim this time is Zig Zag blog by 3amrouch. It seem that the blog has been censored for republishing screen shots of a Canadian newspaper which unveils a real estate transaction in which the Tunisian President's son-in-law Mohamed Sakhr El Matri bought a villa in Canada for a huge amount of money – information which the Tunisian Government wants to hide from its people. Many bloggers wrote about this censorship and condemned it.
Samsoum wrote:
Le blog de 3amrouch a été censure car il a repris une information publique sur un journal canadien qui est accessible a tout le monde. Par solidarité je publie aussi le lien vers ce journal qui cite dans sa page 10 la transaction immobilière qu'on veut cacher a tout prix. Et qu'on censure ce blog aussi!!!
Thoughts of an ex-Muslim wrote:
لا للحجب دون قرار قضائي واضح و علني و مسبب، لا للحجب بسبب نقد مظاهر الفساد ، الغبي الذي اتخذ القرار تقفيفا لسيدي بوحجر انما خدم عمروش و أضر سيده الصغير
Ordinary stories blogged saying:
قد ما قلنا ونددنا بهذه الممارسات، عمار ما فهمش، ما هوش فاهم وماهوش ناوي يفهم
هذاك علاش، تضامنا مع المدونة المحجوبة باش نعاود ننشر الموضوع إلي أغلب الظن أنه كان السبب وراء عملية الحجب
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“information which the Tunisian Government wants to hide from its people”…
Not sure why you assumed the government wants to hide this “information”. What the government has to do with it?
Also, why didn’t you state the exact amount of the transaction?
Well my dear
My posts consist in reporting what the bloggers said . It is not an article that I wrote. They are not my sayings.Here is the link about the concept of Global Voices Online may be after reading it you will find the answer to your 1st question http://globalvoicesonline.org/about/. As to your second question , well the post is not about the transaction , it is rather about the censorship . If I was writing a post about the real estate transaction ,I would had indicated the exact amount .
Thanks for the reply. Noted ;-)
However I would have wrote something like:
“information which the Tunisian Government wants to hide from its people according to some bloggers“