Cuba launches its version of Wikipedia

[FLPanhandle]

Source: The Telegraph

Cuba launches its version of Wikipedia

Cuba has begun its own online encyclopedia, similar to Wikipedia, with the goal of presenting its version of the world and history.
It describes its longtime ideological enemy, the United States, as "the empire of our time" and "the most powerful nation of all time."

EcuRed will be launched officially on Tuesday, but it was already up and running on Monday, with 19,345 entries.

It was developed "to create and disseminate the knowledge of all and for all, from Cuba and with the world," the site said.

Users supposedly will be able to update entries with prior approval from EcuRed administrators.



Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8200299/Cuba-launches-its-version-of-Wikipedia.html

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Welcome to Cubapedia!

[Ter]

1. Comupedia?

n/t

[snooper2]

4. ROFL

:rofl:

Good one, and with the first reply!

Bravo!

[Freddie Stubbs]

2. Just as silly as Conservapedia

If you don't like the facts, just create your own.

[Judi Lynn]

3. That won't go over with the Miami hardliner idiot "exile" mob, who censor everything in Miami.

Miami Dade’s Vamos a Cuba “book burning” case costs $250,000 so far
Posted February 10, 2009

http://havanajournal.com.nyud.net:8090/images/uploads/vamos-a-cuba-book.jpg

Vamos a Cuba (Heinemann, 2001), a controversial book by Alta Schreier that paints a rosy picture of life in the communist country, can be removed from Miami-Dade County school libraries, ruled a panel of judges on the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The ruling overturns a July 2006 injunction by the Southern Florida District Court that allowed the book to remain in Miami-Dade County school libraries despite a school board vote of 6-3 to remove 49 copies of the book. The school board, disregarded recommendations of the superintendent and district committees to retain the book, and sided with parent and former political prisoner, Juan Amador Rodriguez, who complained that Vamos a Cuba (Let’s Visit Cuba ) avoids controversial topics, including the repressive regime of former dictator Fidel Castro, who had ruled Cuba for decades.

Another parent, along with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), challenged the removal of the book on First Amendment grounds.

In 2006, Pat Scales, president of the Association of Library Services for Children (ALSC) testified on behalf of the ACLU, saying “that (children) ages four to eight cognitively really don’t ‘get’ the concept of government.” .

Howard Simon, executive director of the ACLU’s Florida branch says he’s not deterred by the latest court decision. “Clearly, this can’t be allowed to stand,” he told the Miami Herald. “We must take further action to prevent the shelves of the Miami-Dade school library from being scrubbed clean of viewpoints some people in the school find objectionable. However much they try to evade the facts and bend the law into a pretzel, censorship is censorship is censorship.”

More:
http://havanajournal.com/cuban_americans/entry/miami-dades-vamos-a-cuba-book-burning-case-costs-250000-so-far/

This was one in a series of books featuring other countries. Apparently the others were deemed acceptable to these clowns, or they would have been making asses of themselves over them, as well.

This is totally representative of the Miami hardliner "exile" mentality. It was Human Rights Watch which some time ago confirmed their view that in Miami the First Amendment is in serious danger.

Clearly they've got some deep, stupid problems of their own in Miami.

http://www.sabre.org.nyud.net:8090/archives/update98/cuba.gif http://farm3.static.flickr.com.nyud.net:8090/2455/3748887553_6dfe66031e.jpg

[Ghost Dog]

5. EcuRed overloaded, so don't try just now:

EcuRed has a problem

Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties.
Try waiting a few minutes and reloading.

(Can't contact the database server: Too many connections (localhost))

http://www.ecured.cu/index.php/EcuRed:Enciclopedia_cubana

[Judi Lynn]

6. Probably getting jammed from Miami! Same place which sends terrorists

to bomb them, strafe the beaches from the water, and go ashore armed to snuff various Cubans they hate, or at least brag they've killed them back home.

All carried out right under the noses of the CIA and FBI, even though acts of aggression on other countries from US soil is illegal. Maimi terrorists have bragged that they've even been caught at sea in boats loaded with artillery and ammunition and were turned loose. They boast openly the F.B.I. turns its head for them.

Jamming the website will become a new hobby for some of them, without a doubt. It many mean there will be fewer disruptors here for a while.

[Billy Burnett]

8. Cuba has only sat connections to www.

The US sanctions on businesses prevents Cisco from connecting Cuba to the only Caribbean fiberoptic trunk.

So, Cuba has to do with medium to slow bandwidth sat uplink, and home service is via slow phone modems. All easy systems to overwhelm.

[Sixathome]

7. Can't be any worse than American textbooks or media

Talk about rewriting history! Love that History channel :puke:
I love reading their sites , that's how I found Project Censored.

[snooper2]

9. Oh come on DU

only 8 posts...well, nine now...

This thread can be greatness if you all really try!!!!!!!!!!!!


:bounce:

[alp227]

10. but of course that's worthless due to questionable factual accuracy

and thanks to el bloqueo hardly accessible either. I won't be reading that site anytime soon. Wanna know any of America's/BFEE dark secrets? Wikipedia should link you there plenty enough.