[prisoner6]

Very interesting article CW. Thanks for posting. It mentions Cuban websites...I wonder if we can access them.

Guess I'll go Google and see what I find.

prisoner6

[The Red Zone]

The U.S. Interests Section in Havana has 46 terminals available for free to preregistered dissidents, students and activists, a service that the Cuban government has branded ``an illegal act.''

Okay, now all these chaps have to do is walk in the door of the embassy? Nobody watching?

[wolfpat]

Cuba ping

[angkor]

the most controlled and least accessible Internet. It lumped Cuba with Iran and Vietnam.

Hmmmm....

Having seen the growth in Vietnam's Internet availability between 1997 and today, I guess I'd disagree.

My brother-in-law went to his local Internet cafe last week (unheard of even a few years ago), opened a hotmail account, and sent photos to us in the States, no problem or hassle.

The cafe is owned by another relative, a young guy with no political connections whatsoever. Just smarts and ambition.

And when I was last there, no problems reaching any U.S. site, doing email, etc. People are running Skype and seem to have relative freedom with the Internet.

If there's any impediment it's the tired old state-owned monopoly telecomm system, which is as bad delivering simple landline telephone service as it is providing countrywide Internet connections.

[gitmo]

Why don't the dictators all get together and start the "DWW"? Dictator Wide Web. Wouldn't require more than a pittance in money. Then forbid any portal access to the www.

[martin_fierro]

http://www.therealcuba.com

[martin_fierro]

The Cuban government acknowledges that it blocks websites that it considers to be terrorist, subversive or pornographic. Attempts to view blocked sites, such as the Cuban American National Foundation's, result in generic messages such as ``This page cannot be shown.''

Back in 2000 or so, the NYC Visitors' Center in Times Square had free Internet terminals set up (courtesy of Yahoo) for people to check their e-mail while travelling there.

I'll never for get the experience of trying to visit FR from there and getting the message, "Access to pornographic/hate sites is denied."

Access to DU? No problem.

[Rebelbase]

Cuba ping.

[cricket]

That has not restricted news sites like The Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald, The New York Times and The Washington Post, Espinosa added in a telephone interview from Havana.

Great. . . politics 'ala Fidel'. . .and no doubt Fidel's morning read after Pravda. . .

My only exception to note here is that the fear these communists experience re information; is not pathological but in fact, reality based and so, quite real. . .

Maybe U.S. should do flyovers. . .drop 'WSJ' and Washington Times. . .include web address for 'Free Republic'. . .

[varyouga]

Give 'em internet. The people will be free-er and it's much cheaper than overthrowing Castro by force.

[goldstategop]

The Cuban regime doesn't have the resources to police the Internet use of the entire population. So it has decided to ban access to the Internet outright. For a tyranny, freedom is a dangerous thing. One idea could be the spark that burns the Communist dictatorship down.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")