CAIRO: The trial of the Higher Tunisian Court to decide over censoring certain websites from the Internet in the country has been postponed to February 22, reported a well-informed source in Tunisia. The issue was made popular late last year, when Tunisian lawyers filed lawsuits regarding adult websites that were easily made available through the Internet. They called for them to be blocked in the country, leading to questions over the use of the Internet and freedom of the web in the North African country. The ATI (Tunisian Internet Agency) appealed the lawsuit several times, claiming that censorship has it's technical and financial difficulties, though throughout Tunisia's ousted President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali time in power of the country, Internet filtering had been implemented. Tunisia has just under four million Internet users, and the government considers information and communications technology an important asset in helping the country's growing economy. BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/lkJEf Tags: Censorship, Internet, Trial Section: Latest News, Tech, Tunisia
