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Tunis : Tunisia | Oct 22, 2011 at 3:39 AM PDT

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Cyril Folliot/AFP For years they faced one of the most sophisticated cyber-censorship regimes in the world, hacked, shut down, trailed by secret police, savagely beaten, burgled and jailed. But Tunisian bloggers played a key role in spreading ideas, information and accounts of brutality in the... FULL ARTICLE AT The Guardian

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