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Tunisia lifts YouTube and Dailymotion ban, but…

Categories: Tunisia, Advocacy

The news today is that Tunisia has lifted the ban [1] on both popular video-sharing websites Youtube [2] (Blocked since November 2nd, 2007 [3]) and Dailymotion [4] (Blocked since Septembre 3rd, 2007 [5]).

But some tests carried out from Tunisia by some Tunisian activists and bloggers have shown that despite restoring access to Youtube, a number of specific youtube videos and pages still remain blocked such as the youtube page [6] of the collective bog nawaat [7] as displayed in the following screenshot:

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On September 3rd, 2008, the ban [9] on the social networking website Facebook, that lasted for two weeks, has been lifted [10] after a massive protest by Tunisian Netizens.