Libya has adopted a few media laws outlawing the slander of the 17th February revolution, and active political parties that used to have affiliation with Gaddafi.
Freedom of speech has suffered a few blows since the killing of activists and bloggers making the country unsafe to freely report news or protest.
More than 20 TV stations, many privately owned, broadcast from Libyan cities and from Middle East media hubs.
[2] In the course of the 2011 Libyan civil war, the government severed the physical communications links between the rebel-held east and the rest of Libya.
[7] International dialing code: +218[11] Facebook, X, and YouTube played important roles in bringing news to the world audience during the revolt.
[21] Prior to the Libyan revolution, Internet filtering under the Gaddafi regime had become more selective, focusing on a few political opposition Web sites.
Service picked up over the next few days to almost normal levels until, at 6:00am on 3 March, traffic effectively ceased (except for very limited satellite links).
The government had severed the underwater backbone fibre-optic cable that runs along the coast, linking networks in the east and servers in the west of the country.