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Dreamer Tatum

(10,996 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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Cuban Youth Built A Secret Internet Network (Original Post) Dreamer Tatum Jan 2015 OP

"Why are home internet connections banned for almost all Cubans?" eissa Jan 2015 #1

Paradise SHOULD come with no internet or cellphone towers - hence the word paradise Hestia Jan 2015 #2

Yup. Exactly as I thought. nt Dreamer Tatum Jan 2015 #3

Then what are YOU doing online? NYC Liberal Jan 2015 #4

Waiting like all of us to be free from this awful contraption of community and information nt Dreamer Tatum Jan 2015 #5

face to face DonCoquixote Jan 2015 #9

What will happen to it when the barriers come down? KamaAina Jan 2015 #6

I'd like to know why they're restricted in the first place. nt Dreamer Tatum Jan 2015 #7

I read on DU that cuba is a socialist progressive workers paradise run by the freedom loving msongs Jan 2015 #8

eissa

(4,238 posts)

1. "Why are home internet connections banned for almost all Cubans?"

Reply to Dreamer Tatum (Original post)

Mon Jan 26, 2015, 02:55 PM

Jan 2015

Good question.

Hestia

(3,818 posts)

2. Paradise SHOULD come with no internet or cellphone towers - hence the word paradise

Reply to Dreamer Tatum (Original post)

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

Dreamer Tatum

(10,996 posts)

3. Yup. Exactly as I thought. nt

Reply to Hestia (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 26, 2015, 03:09 PM

Jan 2015

NYC Liberal

(20,453 posts)

4. Then what are YOU doing online?

Reply to Hestia (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 26, 2015, 03:10 PM

Jan 2015

Dreamer Tatum

(10,996 posts)

5. Waiting like all of us to be free from this awful contraption of community and information nt

Reply to NYC Liberal (Reply #4)

Mon Jan 26, 2015, 03:12 PM

Jan 2015

DonCoquixote

(13,980 posts)

9. face to face

Reply to Hestia (Reply #2)

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?

Reply to Dreamer Tatum (Original post)

Mon Jan 26, 2015, 03:13 PM

Jan 2015

Which I figure they will eventually.

Will these youth become Cuba's first ISP?

Dreamer Tatum

(10,996 posts)

7. I'd like to know why they're restricted in the first place. nt

Reply to KamaAina (Reply #6)

Mon Jan 26, 2015, 03:14 PM

Jan 2015

msongs

(74,199 posts)

8. I read on DU that cuba is a socialist progressive workers paradise run by the freedom loving

Reply to Dreamer Tatum (Reply #7)

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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