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Cuba Starts Rolling Out Internet on Mobile Phones (reuters.com)
Communist-run Cuba has started providing internet on the mobile phones of select users as it aims to roll out the service nationwide by year-end, in a further step toward opening one of the Western Hemisphere's least connected countries. From a report: Journalists at state-run news outlets were among the first this year to get mobile internet, provided by Cuba's telecoms monopoly, as part of a wider campaign for greater internet access that new President Miguel Diaz-Canel has said should boost the economy and help Cubans defend their revolution. Analysts said broader web access will also ultimately weaken the government's control of what information reaches people in the one-party island state that has a monopoly on the media. Cuba frowns on public dissent and blocks access to dissident websites.
In Soviet Cuba, phone connects to you...wait. Nevermind.
The problem is there is too much Ego in government and not enough listening. Nearly every decision will have trade offs, many of them may not be predictable and at what scale until after it has happen. Governments if they are actually working for the people and not themselves should be able to listen to the decent that is in place and learn from it. Punishing descent will only hide the problems from the government and many people can suffer, because sometimes a small tweak to a decision may make the opposite sides life much better without going too far away from your core direction.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
This is not going to solve the problem of people risking their own lives and their families lives to flee the country.
FREEDOM will solve the problem.
The government should spend less of its attention on SIFTING OUT people's hard earned money and propping up bread-and-circus access to celebutard news media and more of its attention on releasing political prisoners and letting people start businesses.
That will get people out of poverty. If they just expanded individual freedom outside currency would POUR in from the US and people would have much better conditions and jobs quickly.
This only works if the phone has an eSATAp connector to plug the internet drive into.
Nullius in verba
Samizdat help to topple other communist governments. Today, it's much easier with the Internet. Expect big changes in Cuba, shortly.
>> Cuba frowns on public dissent
Where "frowns" equals "has killed tens of thousands of people in the name of political correctness"
https://www.quora.com/How-many-deaths-was-Fidel-Castro-responsible-for
Is this a good thing?
Avantgarde Hebrew science fiction
This sounds like a job... for BATMAN!
I mean, maybe. I dunno. Low connectivity with only a few points actually having a connection and everyone else running adhoc wireless sharing one common resource DOES sound pretty communistic. But I really just wanted to say the line about batman.
you know, that's what's really important here.
Thats about what we pay here in Canada.
start reading fake news.
Analysts said broader web access will also ultimately weaken the government's control of what information reaches people in the one-party island state that has a monopoly on the media.
Cuban can already get any news they want from foreign radio./p
With mass communications comes the NSA, CIA, GCHQ, MI6 and a color revolution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
All the US backed protest organizing can now be funded and directed on secure networks.
The NSA is going to use the new communications networks to secure communications between neighborhood protest committees.
In every neighborhood, Color Revolution.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Because it's over. Castro won when Baptista fled, thus ending the revolution.