Talk:Internet in Cuba

ALBA-1

I heard rumours ALBA-1 would not be working because they used a cheaper cable and put the difference in their pockets. There aren't any official sources, but I heard this from several sources in Cuba. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.138.177.238 (talk) 14:41, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

overall quality of this article

The article right now is not very good. Some points seem based on the content of cite note #3, which is from the Miami Herald (regarding Cuba, in my eyes not a NPOV source). Even the reader's comments under the cited Miami Herald's page are fights of strong anti-cuban / pro-cuban comments. So it seems not to be a very reliable source.

Second, the article is a bit outdated. The expensive satlink is a thing that was necessary for years as the only technical/political option. Latest developments have to be added to the article. As of July 2011, there is an undersea fiber optics cable already placed from Venezuela which will further connect to Haiti. Currently all available press sources say that in summer 2011 this connection will get in function to replace expensive satlink. The '2 percent of the population' count may be an official number and it is clearly outdated. I'm sorry the following is only personal point of view (so not a citeable source). I'm having almost daily contact to many friends who are from all walks of life (not just officials). It does not seem to be very limited, not by accessability and neither do they limit themselves in their expression of thoughts. So, in practical life 'surveillance' surely exists but I've never seen effects of this. The difference is, I am from germany with a .de mail address. Direct Cuban-US Contacts maybe are much stricter limited or supervised than contacts to europe. On my regular travels, when I tried to access german news websites and german webmailers eg at a neighbors's PC, I could use them (but slow). It seems that the leading int'l websites (aka US) are blocked but I cannot find out on which side that happens. I'll leave out conspiracy here but I guess blocking focuses on the large US companies. BTW Regarding statistics and growth, the german wiki articles are more up-to-date than the :en wiki. I hope after inauguration of the sea cable we can update both the :de and :en articles. -- Lagaly de (talk) 22:23, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

• added two cites about the submarine cable -- Lagaly de (talk) 22:43, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
• I updated the article. Hopefully some of my changes addressed some of these concerns. I'm sure that there is more that could/should be done. Jeff Ogden (talk) 21:53, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

1966?

The first sentence says the Internet has stagnated since 1966? Um, there wasn't much of an Internet in 1966, let alone computers...Oaktree b (talk) 18:32, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

I corrected the statement, I think he ment 1996, not 66, I checked out his source but I dont htink he referenced a date it started to stagnate. So i made it a little more general.MilkStraw532 (talk) 18:48, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Plans to bring Internet access to homes

ETECSA has just announced plans to extend Internet access to private homes in late 2014 (http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/entertainment/2013/06/22/cuba-plans-internet-in-homes-by-late-2014/). This announcement is further evidence that Cuba is utilizing Internet access not just for the elite and the professional community but also the masses. 68.4.28.33 (talk) 01:55, 27 June 2013 (UTC)Vahe Demirjian

 Done. I added a note about this to the Future prospects section of the article. --Jeff Ogden (W163) (talk) 02:30, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

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Could an expert please fill out this article?

This lede is not good and the article is missing lots of information. It's like the article starts in the middle, there's no introduction to the topic and not much background. I don't know enough about Cuba to write more or find sources but I would like to learn more. Could an expert please fill this in? 169.234.216.238 (talk) 01:47, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

I am working on editing some of it, however I am not experienced with editing wikipedia. I can provide a citation for info on the status of internet censorship but I am still learning how to edit according to wikipedia's standards. I am not sure how to add a citation but will continue trying to learn.

Filastò, A., Xynou, M., & Basso , S. (2018, April 23). ParkNet: Short documentary on internet censorship in Cuba. OONI. https://ooni.org/post/parknet-short-documentary-cuba/

This is the citation I wanted to add to the last paragraph related to how most websites are not blocked but some websites funded by the US government, specifically Radio Televisión Martí and a few other sites are blocked. This group of people documenting internet censorship for the OONI project traveled to Cuba and ran some testing for network censorship.

However, I must clarify that in recent times the cuban government has selectively blocked websites and shut off internet access entirely during times of conflict. For example, the following test by OONI is where they blocked the Signal Private Messenger app during the 2021 protests.

https://ooni.org/post/2021-how-signal-private-messenger-blocked-around-the-world/ 2600:1700:B2A0:4260:0:0:0:2B (talk) 22:37, 2 December 2023 (UTC)