Go the Swiss

admin —  November 17, 2005 — 1 Comment

This is leadership:

The Register: An extraordinary criticism of Tunisia?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢s approach to the Internet was fired at its president Zine Ben Ali at the opening ceremony of the World Summit in Tunis this morning.

Swiss president Samuel Schmid drew huge applause from the back of the room when he directly criticised Tunisia?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢s controlling Internet policies. “It is unsupportable that the UN still has members that imprison their own citizens because of what they have written on the Internet or in the press,” he said. “Everyone should be able to express their views freely.”