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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCuban Youth Built A Secret Internet Network
http://www.businessinsider.com/cuban-youth-built-a-secret-internet-network-2015-1Cut off from the Internet, young Cubans have quietly linked thousands of computers into a hidden network that stretches miles across Havana, letting them chat with friends, play games and download hit movies in a mini-replica of the online world that most can't access.
Home Internet connections are banned for all but a handful of Cubans, and the government charges nearly a quarter of a month's salary for an hour online in government-run hotels and Internet centers. As a result, most people on the island live offline, complaining about their lack of access to information and contact with friends and family abroad.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/cuban-youth-built-a-secret-internet-network-2015-1#ixzz3PxEHq200
Why are home internet connections banned for almost all Cubans? I've been assured that it's paradise there. I just assumed paradise would come with Internet?
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Cuban Youth Built A Secret Internet Network (Original Post)
Dreamer Tatum
Jan 2015
OP
Paradise SHOULD come with no internet or cellphone towers - hence the word paradise
Hestia
Jan 2015
#2
Waiting like all of us to be free from this awful contraption of community and information nt
Dreamer Tatum
Jan 2015
#5
eissa
(4,238 posts)1. "Why are home internet connections banned for almost all Cubans?"
Good question.
Hestia
(3,818 posts)2. Paradise SHOULD come with no internet or cellphone towers - hence the word paradise
A place of "beauty, delight, and happiness" should interact face to face, not online. 2 years from now we'll see kids with their faces stuck on a screen in Cuba. Yea, American Democracy and Freedom(s) - not
Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)3. Yup. Exactly as I thought. nt
NYC Liberal
(20,132 posts)4. Then what are YOU doing online?
Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)5. Waiting like all of us to be free from this awful contraption of community and information nt
DonCoquixote
(13,615 posts)9. face to face
not all progressives can interact face to face, because we are in place where the red staters dominate, ye we seed a bit of leftward joy in victories.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)6. What will happen to it when the barriers come down?
Which I figure they will eventually.
Will these youth become Cuba's first ISP?
Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)7. I'd like to know why they're restricted in the first place. nt
msongs
(67,193 posts)8. I read on DU that cuba is a socialist progressive workers paradise run by the freedom loving
Castro brothers who gained power by handing out flowers to its opponents