Is this how we’ll speak out if the government takes free speech away from the internet?
In an era of increasingly intrusive government, perhaps we can learn from those who have dealt with such things for a much longer time. – TD
A Cuban flag | Tim Chapman/Miami Herald/MCT
Cubans evade censorship by exchanging computer memory sticks, blogger says
By Tim Johnson | McClatchy Newspapers
PUEBLA, Mexico — Dissident Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez on Saturday told newspaper publishers from around the Western Hemisphere that “nothing is changing” in Cuba’s ossified political system and that “the situation of press freedom in my country is calamitous.”
But Sanchez said underground blogs, digital portals and illicit e-magazines proliferate, passed around on removable computer drives known as memory sticks.. The small computer memories, also known as flash drives or thumb drives, are dropped into friendly hands on buses and along street corners, offering a surprising number of Cubans access to information.
“Information circulates hand to hand through this wonderful gadget known as the memory stick,” Sanchez said, “and it is difficult for the government to intercept them. I can’t imagine that they can put a police officer on every corner to see who has a flash drive and who doesn’t.”
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