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Gregory Morrow
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Yup...it's true.....looks like Nemo's hero Fidel has put a TOTAL kibbosh on
the already MINISCULE internet access that Cubans are "allowed"......we
guess that ChuKKKles Nemo has rigged up a satellite dish from an old toilet
bow on the roof of that window - less '56 Chevy he lives in....
Thing is, ChuKKKles still uses that terlet bowl for his daily stool
"explosions", so that's why we see everything he writes on Usenet as UTTER
shite.......!!!!!!
You might call him, "Nemo, the Human CESSPOOL"...
<s******/>
"Cubans wonder where their Web access went
By Michael Martinez, Tribune correspondent. Chicago Tribune, September 14,
2007.
HAVANA - At a government-run Internet cafe inside a Havana post office, the
1,942 Cubans signed up to use the computers were left with a question this
summer: Why had the government abruptly cut their Internet access, leaving
them only with e-mail on a state account?
At this and three other public centers in Havana no longer on the Web,
managers and clientele could only speculate why:
Did demand exceed the woeful infrastructure? Or was it the latest example of
information control in the communist nation, as Internet rumors abound about
Fidel Castro's illness and prognosis? Did the communications minister make
good on a February pronouncement that the Internet "can and must be
controlled"?
"They don't want us to see the critical press," one man said.
"They want to keep us in darkness," said another, adding that his e-mails
can be more easily monitored.
Not even two employees at the post office knew why they lost Web surfing in
early July. "I don't think there should be any limitations because it's not
good for cultural advancement," one manager said.
The Internet blackout in at least four Havana cafes, including one in the
Ministry of Communication headquarters, provided a snapshot of Cuba on the
short end of the digital divide, where developing countries struggle to put
and keep institutions and people online.
Ordinary Cubans have trouble affording and securing authorization for
computers and home dial-up service (high-speed access doesn't exist in Cuban
homes).
That makes the Internet cafe, whose overall numbers throughout Cuba couldn't
be ascertained, the all-important public means to access the Internet.
Foreign visitors can access the Web in hotels, where Internet cafe prices of
$12 an hour and strict guest policies keep out average Cubans.
One report estimated that only 220,000 of the country's roughly 11 million
people are online. If Cubans have a computer at work, Web access is often
scant -- limited to pages related to their job -- except for senior
officials, government journalists and certain other professionals.
Communications Ministry officials declined to comment. One government aide
who didn't have firsthand knowledge of the blackout said a temporary
"technical problem" could be the cause.
While not speaking about the cafes' loss of Web browsing, a second
government official who asked not to be named said many problems stem from
poor infrastructure created by a U.S. policy preventing Cuba from accessing
undersea high-speed cables as close as 12 miles from Havana, in addition to
an American trade embargo on computer software and hardware.
'Our infrastructure is the worst'
Cuba must rely on an expensive but relatively slow satellite connection to
the Internet, and those limits frustrate officials who highlight computer
training as early as the 1st grade.
"Our infrastructure is the worst," the official said.
Many of those shortcomings will be remedied after Cuba and Venezuela
complete an underwater 965-mile fiber-optic cable in 2009, the official
said. The cable will modernize and expand the island's digital capacity.
Critics, meanwhile, aren't convinced the U.S. is entirely to blame.
Jean Francois Julliard, head of research for Reporters Without Borders,
which last October criticized Cuba's "system of control and surveillance" of
the Internet, said U.S. policies are wrongheaded. But as for Cuba, which is
noted for subsidizing and providing a high level of free education and
medical care, he asks, "Why couldn't they provide a cheaper access to the
Internet?"
Since last year, Reporters Without Borders, a French non-profit group, has
been raising concerns about Cuba.
"With less than 2 percent of the population online, Cuba is one of the
world's most backward countries as regards Internet usage," the report said,
ranking it as the worst in Latin America and on a level with Uganda or Sri
Lanka.
The U.S. State Department contends that Cuba blocks Web sites deemed
politically objectionable.
But Nelson Valdes, a sociology professor at the University of New Mexico who
has studied Cuba's Internet for several years, said limited capacity forces
the government to make tough decisions.
"At present, it's a zero-sum game," Valdes said. "I would have to say that
those who make the decisions in Cuba, they would say, 'How do [Internet
access priviliges] contribute to development (this sentence as published has
been corrected in this text)? Do we give [Internet usage] to dissidents or
to a hospital?'"
Some still bypass constraints
Meanwhile, Cubans still find illicit ways to get online.
For example, a government auditor spent several hours one recent afternoon
using a friend's Internet account at one of the government-controlled media
outlets, which are at the most open levels of Web access.
The accountant's own office computer had very little Internet access,
confined to matters related to his work.
"I can access Google, Yahoo and probably pornography if wanted, but I'm
sure that's monitored," said the auditor, who asked that his name not be
published because his Internet use was unauthorized.
"The biggest problem for me and my friends is we can't download anything
more than a few [megabytes]. All you can do is send one e-mail one photo,
one e-mail one photo," he said.
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the already MINISCULE internet access that Cubans are "allowed"......we
guess that ChuKKKles Nemo has rigged up a satellite dish from an old toilet
bow on the roof of that window - less '56 Chevy he lives in....
Thing is, ChuKKKles still uses that terlet bowl for his daily stool
"explosions", so that's why we see everything he writes on Usenet as UTTER
shite.......!!!!!!
You might call him, "Nemo, the Human CESSPOOL"...
<s******/>
"Cubans wonder where their Web access went
By Michael Martinez, Tribune correspondent. Chicago Tribune, September 14,
2007.
HAVANA - At a government-run Internet cafe inside a Havana post office, the
1,942 Cubans signed up to use the computers were left with a question this
summer: Why had the government abruptly cut their Internet access, leaving
them only with e-mail on a state account?
At this and three other public centers in Havana no longer on the Web,
managers and clientele could only speculate why:
Did demand exceed the woeful infrastructure? Or was it the latest example of
information control in the communist nation, as Internet rumors abound about
Fidel Castro's illness and prognosis? Did the communications minister make
good on a February pronouncement that the Internet "can and must be
controlled"?
"They don't want us to see the critical press," one man said.
"They want to keep us in darkness," said another, adding that his e-mails
can be more easily monitored.
Not even two employees at the post office knew why they lost Web surfing in
early July. "I don't think there should be any limitations because it's not
good for cultural advancement," one manager said.
The Internet blackout in at least four Havana cafes, including one in the
Ministry of Communication headquarters, provided a snapshot of Cuba on the
short end of the digital divide, where developing countries struggle to put
and keep institutions and people online.
Ordinary Cubans have trouble affording and securing authorization for
computers and home dial-up service (high-speed access doesn't exist in Cuban
homes).
That makes the Internet cafe, whose overall numbers throughout Cuba couldn't
be ascertained, the all-important public means to access the Internet.
Foreign visitors can access the Web in hotels, where Internet cafe prices of
$12 an hour and strict guest policies keep out average Cubans.
One report estimated that only 220,000 of the country's roughly 11 million
people are online. If Cubans have a computer at work, Web access is often
scant -- limited to pages related to their job -- except for senior
officials, government journalists and certain other professionals.
Communications Ministry officials declined to comment. One government aide
who didn't have firsthand knowledge of the blackout said a temporary
"technical problem" could be the cause.
While not speaking about the cafes' loss of Web browsing, a second
government official who asked not to be named said many problems stem from
poor infrastructure created by a U.S. policy preventing Cuba from accessing
undersea high-speed cables as close as 12 miles from Havana, in addition to
an American trade embargo on computer software and hardware.
'Our infrastructure is the worst'
Cuba must rely on an expensive but relatively slow satellite connection to
the Internet, and those limits frustrate officials who highlight computer
training as early as the 1st grade.
"Our infrastructure is the worst," the official said.
Many of those shortcomings will be remedied after Cuba and Venezuela
complete an underwater 965-mile fiber-optic cable in 2009, the official
said. The cable will modernize and expand the island's digital capacity.
Critics, meanwhile, aren't convinced the U.S. is entirely to blame.
Jean Francois Julliard, head of research for Reporters Without Borders,
which last October criticized Cuba's "system of control and surveillance" of
the Internet, said U.S. policies are wrongheaded. But as for Cuba, which is
noted for subsidizing and providing a high level of free education and
medical care, he asks, "Why couldn't they provide a cheaper access to the
Internet?"
Since last year, Reporters Without Borders, a French non-profit group, has
been raising concerns about Cuba.
"With less than 2 percent of the population online, Cuba is one of the
world's most backward countries as regards Internet usage," the report said,
ranking it as the worst in Latin America and on a level with Uganda or Sri
Lanka.
The U.S. State Department contends that Cuba blocks Web sites deemed
politically objectionable.
But Nelson Valdes, a sociology professor at the University of New Mexico who
has studied Cuba's Internet for several years, said limited capacity forces
the government to make tough decisions.
"At present, it's a zero-sum game," Valdes said. "I would have to say that
those who make the decisions in Cuba, they would say, 'How do [Internet
access priviliges] contribute to development (this sentence as published has
been corrected in this text)? Do we give [Internet usage] to dissidents or
to a hospital?'"
Some still bypass constraints
Meanwhile, Cubans still find illicit ways to get online.
For example, a government auditor spent several hours one recent afternoon
using a friend's Internet account at one of the government-controlled media
outlets, which are at the most open levels of Web access.
The accountant's own office computer had very little Internet access,
confined to matters related to his work.
"I can access Google, Yahoo and probably pornography if wanted, but I'm
sure that's monitored," said the auditor, who asked that his name not be
published because his Internet use was unauthorized.
"The biggest problem for me and my friends is we can't download anything
more than a few [megabytes]. All you can do is send one e-mail one photo,
one e-mail one photo," he said.
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