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Google Global Cache Is Coming to Cuba (ap.org)
"The Associated Press reports that on Monday Eric Schmidt will be in Havana to sign a deal bringing Google Global Cache to Cuba," writes lpress. Here's some details from the AP's report on the deal.
Cuba suffers from some of the world's slowest internet speeds due to a range of problems that include the convoluted, and thus slower, paths that data must travel between Cuban users and servers that are often in the U.S... home internet connections remain illegal for virtually all Cubans, forcing them to use public WiFi spots that are often shared by dozens of people at a time and run at achingly slow speeds... Both pro-detente forces and those arguing for a hard line on President Raul Castro's single-party government have been pushing for Cubans to have better access to information.
The article cites Slashdot reader Larry Press as "a California-based expert on the Cuban internet," who also shares some more thoughts on his blog. "I'd love to see a country -- even a small one -- in which Google Plus was more popular than Facebook."
The article cites Slashdot reader Larry Press as "a California-based expert on the Cuban internet," who also shares some more thoughts on his blog. "I'd love to see a country -- even a small one -- in which Google Plus was more popular than Facebook."
The best map I could find was a 2015 test that found 2383 "cache instances" in 800 locations around the globe.
I'm just wondering if we're headed to a future where the third world surf the web on Google's internet, while Google silently monitors their traffic to help calculating their page rankings.
Before they had information filtered and warped by the Castro regime, now they'll have information filtered and warped by Google...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
were people would just piss on both Google and Facebook.
Who does lpress first blame on Cuban internet slowness?
Not the fact that internet connections are illegal for the vast majority of Cubans.
Not the fact that they can only get it through a small number of overburdened public WiFi hot spots who's connections are slow to begin with.
No. As usual, The Liberal Blames America First.
Who needs fake news when distortion is soooo much more effective, and has the benefit of being... true?
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
The word is "dictatorship". Or, if you prefer: "tyranny".
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Is Cuban internet service routed through Europa or something? Because it's hard to come up with of a terrestrial path which would add a noticeable delay, in and of itself.
#DeleteChrome
Associated and Larry are first cousins.
#DeleteChrome
Cuba suffers from some of the world's slowest internet speeds due to a range of problems
Oh, i can think of only one. how about a 60 year embargo imposed by the United states and maintained solely as a talisman for other states to gaze into should they have the audacity to challenge or refuse Washingtons foreign policy. What cuba did was nothing short of goddamn heresy in the early sixties. While most south american countries enjoyed rule by one of washingtons satellite plutocrats, Castro had the gall to thumb his nose at more than a dozen attempts on his life. While Nicaraguan families cowered from American Contra soldiers, Castro nationalized industry and expanded healthcare. And when america realized their last entry into central and south american politics was through Cuba, they acquiesced and suddenly became best friendos with a nation that has almost never shared the policy of profiteering Google seeks to introduce.
Good people go to bed earlier.
If the number of people allowed to access the internet is limited, that would mean that those allowed get a greater fraction of the available bandwidth.
Why do you hate the Pigeonhole Principle?
Castro doesn't permit his people to have internet, (...) The Castros can't have the peasants find out the truth about the outside world.
Cuba is not North Korea. Personal Internet access is missing, but offline exchange happens thought el paquete, leaving many opportunities to learn about foreign news. Moreover, tourism is strong at Cuba, which is another way though which outside information can enter the country
"Cuba suffers from some of the world's slowest internet speeds due to a range of problems that include the convoluted, and thus slower, paths that data must travel between Cuban users and servers that are often in the U.S"
Yes. That's why it's slow. It couldn't be for any other reason at all. Just convoluted paths....
El paquete is bootleg USB distribution of pirated media(movies, TV shows, yes some news too). It is the sneaker-net version of file sharing(BitTorrent). It is also illegal according to Cuban law as, yet again, the Castros try to prevent their people from seeing this stuff. That the Castros have not been successful in eliminating the activity does not mean that it is permitted or condoned.
Nothing you've posted invalidates anything at all in my previous post. That the Castros are unsuccessful in totally blocking out outside information does not, for one second, mean that they are not trying to do exactly that and that their laws work to attempt exactly that.
Must I reiterate that there is a whole wide world out there for Cuba to interact with? America is only one nation. Cuba's isolation is a result of the Castros choices to isolate the Cuban people.