Re: OFFICE OF THE SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR FOR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION RECOMMENDS TO THE REPUBLIC OF CUBA THE ELIMINATION OF RESTRICTIONS ON INTERNET ACCESS


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OFFICE OF THE SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR FOR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION RECOMMENDS
TO THE REPUBLIC OF CUBA THE ELIMINATION OF RESTRICTIONS ON INTERNET
ACCESS
June 19, 2006

Washington, D.C., June 19, 2006. The Office of the Special Rapporteur
for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human
Rights (IACHR) of the OAS has been informed of the critical state of
health of the director of the Cubanacán Press news agency, Mr.
Guillermo Fariñas, who has been on hunger strike since January 31,
2006, in protest against the lack of free access to the Internet in
Cuba.


Of economic necessity, internet resources have to be rationed in Cuba

Nope.
If Castro would allow just TV satellite dishes Cubans could have internet
access at 25 to 30% of the price the Cuban government is currently
charging.

[snip]

Very few Cubans would be able to afford even this alternative

Nope.
Lots would be able to with the help of family abroad.
Lots would do so.
Here are companies whose networks cover Cuba:
http://www.satsig.net/ivsat.htm

, so it is not a real solution.

but then the issue is not a technical one, but a political one comrade Dan.
Even with 100 connections to the web Castro would not allow the internet to
be freely used.
Cuba limits internet for most to a highly controlled intranet and to a even
highly controlled internet connection via a government controlled not that
blocks sites (worse than China).
On "information apartheid" in Cuba:
http://www.cubaverdad.net/apartheid_in_cuba.htm#III._Information_apartheid.

"The government passed laws as soon as the Internet appeared in Cuba. In
June 1996, Decree 209 (entitled "Access to the World Computer Network from
Cuba") said the Internet could not be used "in violation of the moral
principles of Cuban society and its laws" and that Internet messages must
not "endanger national security."

Cubans who want to have their own Internet access or use public access
points must have official permission. To obtain it, they must give a "valid
reason" and sign a contract listing restrictions. As with obtaining a
telephone line, they must get also approval from ETEC SA, the country's only
telecom company, and from a local commission linked to the neighbourhood
Committees for the Defence of the Revolution, which evaluates the merits of
applicants.

Decree 209 says access is granted "with priority given to bodies and
institutions that can contribute to the life and development of the
country." Apart from embassies and foreign companies, this means political
figures, top officials, intellectuals, academics, researchers and
journalists working for the government, managers of firms that export
cultural products, computer firms and senior Catholic church officials.

A ministry of computer technology and communications was set up on 13
January 2000 to "regulate, manage, supervise and monitor" Cuban policy on
communications technology, computers, telecommunications, computer networks,
broadcasting, radio frequencies, postal services and the electronics
industry."

http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=10611&Valider=OK

The CDR decides who gets access in Cuba.
http://www.cubaverdad.net/cdr.htm

That says it all comrade Dan.
Your lies are so easy to expose.

The current dial-up service currently offered seems to be priced for
foreign business people, etc. to keep in touch with their home countries.

Dial-up comrade Dan?
Enet offers broadband access
http://www.enet.cu/sitio/servicios_enet.aspx
The service is actually priced by a politically controlled monopolist to
ensure that Cubans can't afford it. They won't even get it in most cases.
But it is possible to get the connection if a foreigners applies in the name
of the Cuban as - as always - even those Cubans that have the money are
excluded from access as part of the "information apartheid" of the Castro
regime.

Again, because internet resources are vert limited in Cuba,

They are very restricted you mean comrade Dan.
No more no less.

Facts about Cuba and internet:
http://www.cubaverdad.net/freedom_of_speech.htm#Internet
Video of an "internet inquisition" in Cuba:
http://www.cubaverdad.net/internet_access.htm
More on internet and Cuba:
http://www.cubaverdad.net/themefeeds/internet.php

But I see you don't deny that Cubans have no freedom of speech:
http://www.cubaverdad.net/freedom_of_speech.htm

PL


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