Cyberwar intensifies.(CUBA)

0 Comments | Caribbean Update, July, 2009

Cuban bloggers are fighting a cyberwar with the government to give their own version of reality on the island, from hotels and using memory sticks and laptops obtained from abroad, reports AFP (May 23, 2009):

Bloggers with "alternative" agendas say it is becoming harder to evade official censorship, although they have managed to multiply in the past three years in a country where Internet access is limited. Havana accuses them of being on the payroll of Washington and other governments in a bid to denigrate the 50-year-old Cuban revolution. The government argues that it has the right to block sites which "encourage subversion." Under names such as "Generacion Y" (Generation Y) - - the internationally-renowned blog of Yoani Sanchez -or "Retazos" (Snippets) by...