Editing Politics of Tunisia (section)

===Media===

Under the Ben Ali regime, freedom of the press was officially guaranteed, but the press was highly restricted, as was a substantial amount of web content. Journalists were often obstructed from reporting on controversial events.<ref>[http://opennet.net/research/profiles/tunisia "Profile on Tunisian Media"], [[Open Net Initiative]], 2009</ref> Prior to the [[Tunisian revolution|Jasmine Revolution]], Tunisia practiced internet censorship against popular websites such as [[YouTube]]. In 2010 [[Reporters Without Borders]] included Tunisia in the country list of “Enemies of the Internet".<ref>[https://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2010/04/reporters-without-borders-issues-enemies-of-the-internet-list095.html "RWB Issues Enemies of the Internet List"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121113144244/http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2010/04/reporters-without-borders-issues-enemies-of-the-internet-list095.html |date=2012-11-13 }} PBS, 2010</ref> Despite this, Tunisia hosted the second half of the [[United Nations]]-sponsored [[World Summit on the Information Society]] in 2005,<ref>[http://www.itu.int/wsis/tunis/index.html "Second Phase of WSIS: Tunisia 2005"] WSIS, 2005</ref> which endorsed the freedom of the internet as a platform for political participation and human rights protection. By 2010, Tunisia had more than 3.5 million regular internet users and 1.6 million [[Facebook]] users<ref>[http://www.spotonpr.com/tag/tunisia/ Facebook bigger than newspapers? So what?], Spot On, May 25th, 2010.</ref> and hundreds of internet cafes, known as 'publinet.'

Five private radio stations have been established, including [[Mosaique FM]], [[Express FM]], [[Shems FM]]<ref>[http://www.magharebia.com/cocoon/awi/xhtml1/en_GB/features/awi/features/2010/10/05/feature-02 "Shems FM hits Tunisia airwaves"] Houda Trabelsi, October 5, 2010</ref> and private television stations such as [[Hannibal-TV|Hannibal TV]] and [[Nessma TV]].<ref>[http://www.tunispro.net/tunisia/tv-in-tunisia.htm "Television TV in Tunisia"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121030143827/http://www.tunispro.net/tunisia/tv-in-tunisia.htm |date=2012-10-30 }} TunisPro</ref>