Tunisian blogger Sami Ben Gharbia reports on the state of cyber activism in Tunisia with a post that appeared both in Global Voices Advocacy and in his Fikra Blog.

Three more blogs have been blocked in Tunisia this week. These blogs, Mochagheb (Disturber), Ennaqed (The Critic) and Place Mohamed Ali have all been particularly active in providing news of the struggle of The Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT), and especially about the latest social unrest in the southwestern phosphate mining region of Gafsa, where two people have been killed. One was shot dead by security forces and the other was electrocuted inside a local electric generator.

Ben Gharbia’s partial list of blogs that have been blocked by the Tunisian government includes 21 sites and links are available to most of them. In addition to this, the popular video sharing sites YouTube and DailyMotion are not accessible from Tunisia and email is filtered, especially on popular webmail sites such as GMail and Yahoo. Often Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) is implemented to filter the messages themselves, according to the article. Resistance to censorship has also taken advantage of the internet to raise awareness of the difficulties faces by Tunisian activists and to circumvent censorship altogether. Techniques have ranged from banner campaigns to the use of web 2.0 tools to coordinate and publicize campaigns.

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