The overthrow of Tunisia’s Zine El Abidine Ben Ali is the first such spontaneous democratic uprising in the Arabic world, showing that in an age of satellite television and the Internet, suppression of information and free expression by individual governments doesn’t really work anymore.
突尼斯的因•阿比丁•本阿里被推翻是阿拉伯世界首次自发的民主起义，这次起义表明在卫星电视和互联网时代，某个政府压抑信息和言论自由的企图已经很难再收到效果。