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Cuba Offers Its Citizens Better Access to Internet
NY TIMES ^
| 6/18/15
| Victoria Burnett
Posted on 06/20/2015 5:20:55 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Cuba, one of the Western Hemispheres least-wired countries, is poised to expand access to the Internet by introducing about three dozen Wi-Fi hot spots around the island and reducing the steep fees that Cubans pay to spend time online.
.....Their model was, Nobody gets Internet, he said in a telephone interview. Now their model is, Were going to bring prices down and expand access, but we are going to do it as a sovereign decision and at our own speed.
Cubas Internet isolation is not the result of the United States five-decade economic embargo, Mr. Henken said, but President Obamas announcement last December that he would restore diplomatic relations removed a pretext for fencing off the web.
The tentative steps toward a less restrictive online future could also provide justification for Mr. Obamas decision, which has come under criticism....
(Excerpt) Read more at mobile.nytimes.com ...
TOPICS: Cuba; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: cuba; enablers; globalwarminghoax; liars; media; nicaragua; popefrancis; romancatholicism; venezuela
The FLORIDA media is applauding Castro and Obama over this supposed "success".....
Unspoken is that the Castro regime is going to monitor the internet and charge people $2 per hour...
The average salary in Cuba? $20 a month
To: SoFloFreeper
“This proves that communism is the way to go!” /[s]
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posted on
06/20/2015 5:22:19 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Claire Wolfe should check her watch. It's time.)
To: SoFloFreeper
Unspoken is that the Castro regime is going to monitor the internet and charge people $2 per hour...Is this a way for the Castro Brothers to root out dissent...?
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posted on
06/20/2015 5:27:05 AM PDT
by
Popman
(Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...I'm)
To: SoFloFreeper
Good old Cuba, envy of the world.
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posted on
06/20/2015 6:07:17 AM PDT
by
MNDude
(God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat.)
To: SoFloFreeper
>> Hector, who asked that his full name not be used for fear of attracting the authorities attention <<
The Times missed the irony that the subject of their article is afraid to give his real name. Access to the Internet will be another service that the tyrants use to control their population.
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posted on
06/20/2015 6:22:10 AM PDT
by
Kid Shelleen
(Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
To: SoFloFreeper
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posted on
06/20/2015 6:41:16 AM PDT
by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: SoFloFreeper
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posted on
06/20/2015 6:43:54 AM PDT
by
Delta 21
(Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
To: SoFloFreeper
The tentative steps toward a less restrictive online future could also provide justification for Mr. Obamas decision,
Amazing how that works...
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posted on
06/20/2015 6:43:58 AM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: SoFloFreeper
Commodore 64’s for everyone.
(Or, my personal favorite...the TRS 80.)
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posted on
06/20/2015 7:14:03 AM PDT
by
moovova
(I chose to identify as a youngster even though I wasn't born that way. Please respect my decision.)
To: SoFloFreeper
Unless you police, then you get $50. Keep the police loyal and invested in government, not the people.
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posted on
06/20/2015 8:28:53 AM PDT
by
fungoking
(Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
To: SoFloFreeper
Universal internet. Unfortunately, Castro doesn’t allow them to own computers.
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posted on
06/20/2015 8:31:32 AM PDT
by
DPMD
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