Tunisia - Tunis court upholds order requiring filtering of porn sites

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A Tunis appeal court yesterday upheld a 27 May court decision requiring the Tunisian Internet Agency (ATI) to block access to pornographic websites. ATI said it would refer the case to the country's highest appeal court because it did not have the “financial and technical resources” to create the filtering and censorship system needed to implement the ruling. Moneem Turki, who represents the group of lawyers behind the legal initiative to have the filtering introduced, said ATI would have to (...)

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