How has Kalima dealt with internet censorship in Tunisia?
SIHEM BENSEDRINE: Our history with censorship has been one of give and take, of building and destroying. Kalima was blocked a few days after it was launched. The website of the National Council for Freedoms fared even worse. The site was based in the USA. As it was a discussion site, a group claiming it was of the Tunisian opposition was planted. They used violent words and attacked the Jews, before raising the American media against us by accusing us of being anti-Semitics. The American judicial authority prosecuted us, which forced us to close our website. As for Kalima, in addition to the ban it has witnessed since its creation, in late October of this year, it was attacked [with such force] that it didn’t just disurpt Kalima but the server hosting us, which led to the disruption of many foreign sites that use the same server. The government, of course, completely denies its involvement in these operations. Naziha Rojaiba, administrator in Kalima, wrote an article published on the s
