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Cubans Evade Censorship By Exchanging Flash Drives
concealment sends this quote from an article about evading internet censorship with the sneakernet: "Dissident Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez on Saturday told newspaper publishers from around the Western Hemisphere that 'nothing is changing' in Cuba’s ossified political system and that 'the situation of press freedom in my country is calamitous.' But Sanchez said underground blogs, digital portals and illicit e-magazines proliferate, passed around on removable computer drives known as memory sticks. The small computer memories, also known as flash drives or thumb drives, are dropped into friendly hands on buses and along street corners, offering a surprising number of Cubans access to information. 'Information circulates hand to hand through this wonderful gadget known as the memory stick,' Sanchez said, 'and it is difficult for the government to intercept them. I can't imagine that they can put a police officer on every corner to see who has a flash drive and who doesn't.'"
Yoani Sanchez is obviously not an independent blogger, as she can afford translation of her blog in 20 languages. She must be backed by some bigger entity, but which one? And in what extent does she speaks for who is paying?
Cubans aren't doing any of this. Why would they? They have free health care, the capitalist pig dogs were chased out so long ago most Cubans can't remember them, their per capita energy use is really low, high literacy prevails, they have no RIAA, no middle-east conflicts to fight... what would a Cuban possibly have to say that might offend one of their wonderful apparatchiks?
Commie-hating 'murikans around here, I swear.