Fidel Castro is dead

[Dd714]

Originally Posted by karstic

The problem is not being blocked or not, but speed... Imagine loading city data at 48K with a very old computer..and paying from five to seven dollars or more. There are wifi areas now, but I guess they are also very slow. Yes, just like China....I guess that more like Tibet. Two "Internets", hundreds of blocked pages. Yes, VPN services work, people use other gimmicks that are rapidly blocked.

I would not connect with some dissident web from Cuba, I bet "they have ways" to found out who you are.

I would venture to guess is Cuba internet censorship is like China - contradictory, strange, changing from day to day, seemingly blocking sites on the whim of individual bueruecratic pencil pushers (hey, just like the moderators of this forum).
But it's all a joke to the average Chinese citizen because VPN gets around it all. Yes, speed is an issue in many places in central and south America, not just Cuba. Brazilians seems to complain a lot.
"Ways to find out"...oh you better believe it. Even in public internet areas you have to enter your identity. As a visiting businessman in a tech field I can't take a crap in PRC without someone knowing about it or recording it anyways. Seriously, I have good stories. "Hotel staff" wanting to check my phone, spyware added to my laptop in my hotel room when I go out to dinner, the whole bit.

[Mouldy Old Schmo]

Check this out.Castro's 'Accomplishments' in Cuba a Load of Nonsense - Reason.com
http://reason.com/archives/2016/11/2...load-o#comment
http://reason.com/blog/2016/12/05/ju...f-castro-facts

[karstic]

Originally Posted by Dd714

I would venture to guess is Cuba internet censorship is like China - contradictory, strange, changing from day to day, seemingly blocking sites on the whim of individual bueruecratic pencil pushers (hey, just like the moderators of this forum).
But it's all a joke to the average Chinese citizen because VPN gets around it all. Yes, speed is an issue in many places in central and south America, not just Cuba. Brazilians seems to complain a lot.
"Ways to find out"...oh you better believe it. Even in public internet areas you have to enter your identity. As a visiting businessman in a tech field I can't take a crap in PRC without someone knowing about it or recording it anyways. Seriously, I have good stories. "Hotel staff" wanting to check my phone, spyware added to my laptop in my hotel room when I go out to dinner, the whole bit.

The issue of very low speed, 48K, only exists in Cuba. The lack of speed is intentional, not due to exterior enemies or the economy.

Now, Google has an Internet Cafe going at a very fast speed in Havana but the manager is a sneak,so I guess that the identity of all surfers is registered ten times.