Since the ouster of dictator Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali last January, Tunisia’s press has been nominally free. But the three were arrested under a law forbidding propaganda “likely to disturb public order and decency.” Reporters Without Borders notes that it’s the same law Ben Ali long used to control dissidents, and is not supposed to apply to the press.
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It seems like, the more technology makes sports available to everyone, we are going to keep having a descending level of quality opinions. You just don’t see people give their take on something until it is on some kind of national stage. It’s why most people, when they try and talk politics, sound so uninformed. […]
At first it didn’t seem so bad – everything slowed down, there was almost a nice stillness to it all. But then the reports in Europe and other countries kept getting worse. And now, it’s in Detroit. In New York. All over our fucking country, scaring the living shit out of all of us whether […]