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Dreamer Tatum

(10,926 posts)
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 02:41 PM Jan 2015

Cuban Youth Built A Secret Internet Network

http://www.businessinsider.com/cuban-youth-built-a-secret-internet-network-2015-1



Cut 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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Hestia

(3,818 posts)
2. Paradise SHOULD come with no internet or cellphone towers - hence the word paradise
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 03:04 PM
Jan 2015

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

DonCoquixote

(13,615 posts)
9. face to face
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 07:04 PM
Jan 2015

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?
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 03:13 PM
Jan 2015

Which I figure they will eventually.

Will these youth become Cuba's first ISP?

msongs

(67,193 posts)
8. I read on DU that cuba is a socialist progressive workers paradise run by the freedom loving
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 03:35 PM
Jan 2015

Castro brothers who gained power by handing out flowers to its opponents

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