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PC Magazine: “Internet Access in Cuba…Still Far From Free”

PC Magazine’s April 2016 Cover Story is all about how Cubans are “bootstrapping the internet.” Their Contributing Editor, William Fenton, spent a week in Cuba recently “staying in casas particulares and asking Cubans how they use technology....

Google Has a Tough Road Ahead if it Wants to “Connect Cuba” to a Free and Open Internet

As published in Motherboard, “The most telling tidbit of information from President Obama’s visit to Cuba thus far was this disclaimer sent in an email to reporters by Laura Haim, a White House correspondent for the French TV station Canal Plus: ‘Apologies...

Workaround for 2.6 Million Cubans Who Want to Get a Peak at the Web

As published in Vice Motherboard, a nonprofit Miami based startup Apretaste, has “set up a system to allow Cubans to browse the web via email, which more people have access to. Only about 400,000 Cubans can freely browse the web, according to Apretaste, but 2.6...

Cuba’s 2015 Freedom On the Net Status: “Not Free” Says Freedom House Latest Report

Freedom House’s 5th annual Freedom On The Net report was released this week, and although sighting “notable advances” with respect to the opening of some public access points, including 35 public wi-fi hotspots in urban areas, “Cuba continues...

VOX Highlights Cuba’s Popular and Mysterious Content “Paquete”

Last week, VOX published a seven minute video doc highlighting the inner-workings of Cuba’s weekly content package or “paquete” a unique workaround by the Cuban people to access banned, censored, and or just plain unavailable content in Cuba; due...