Reply #31: Location and money are the main reasons.

[Mika]

Here's an old DU thread that exposes the media propaganda used against Cuba.

Read the progression of the thread (there is some wading thru the posts by the usual DU Cubaphobes accusing others of being Marxists and Castro lovers etc, but the actuality comes to the fore)..

-Cuba Cracks Down On Web Access-
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=306816


Turns out that the "restriction" and "crackdown" is on the black market internet accounts sold to Cubans at exorbitant prices by Miamicuban exiles and others, there are a handful of internet providers in Cuba.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/09/tech/main592416.shtml

E-net is the largest of a handful of Internet providers in Cuba ..
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E-net customers who do not have the dollar phone service can keep accessing the Internet with the ordinary phone service with special cards sold at Etecsa offices

As long as one can afford it, just like the USA, one can have home access to the internet in Cuba. Otherwise, in Cuba, one has to go to the library for free internet.