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information. In your book
you wrote about the
incidents that happened in
Gafsa 2008 where protests
came up, but did not spread
since nobody knew about
them. You imply that if the
Internet had been in the
state as it is now a
revolution might have
already taken place.
That in mind: Do you think
that you are the supplier of
information that links two
groups of people. On the
one hand people in the
country who are more
frenquently being victims of
injustice, but have no means
of making themselves heard
and on the other hand the
people in the city, the ones
with an internet connection
who would care and show
solidarity if they only knew
about it? (C)
This is interesting, because
we have had preceding
interviews with Tunisian
Photographers and Bloggers
and one noght they told us
that they would not see
themselves as political
persons, although they were
actively taking pictures of
the protests and things
related to the revolution and
put them online. How would
you explain that? (C)
Now, if we call this what
happened a revolution. What
role do you think Internet
activists and bloggers can
take after this revolutionary
act? (C)
Our group is more about
politics in general, so we
talked to parties, NGOs and
about what's going on. yeah (laughs). It's sadly true. In other
parts of the country. I guess that when everything started this
time in Sidi Bouzid many people here in Tunis didn't know
anything in Sidi Bouzid, never visited, didn't know anything about
it. So yes, I think that bloggers were a connection between those
two groups of people.
It is the same for me. Even in my book I say: I don't care about
politics. What's important for me is human rights, freedom,
freedom of speech. I don't care about politics and by politics I
mean political parties and all this political activity. I'm not
interested in being part of the government, or a political party.
Actually I don't call it a revoluion. It's the beginning of a revolution.
The ousting of Ben Ali is just the beginning. The hardest part of to
dos in front of us is, we have to continue to work. Now we have to
make people aware of what's going on. We have to control what
the government is doing. Many things didn't change, so we have
work on improving things, or make people aware of these
problems.
Well I think that the difference is now, that we used to have one
political party. One ruling political party. There were other
dissident political parties which were oppressed. The difference
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