The Internet in Cuba: 5 Things You Need to K**w

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The Internet in Cuba: 5 Things You Need to K**w
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A misguided attempt (http://mashable.com/2014/04/03/cuban-twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) by the U.S. government to create a Twitter-like social network in Cuba — which ended with $1.6 million spent and just 40,000 users to show for it — has put the state of the Internet on the communist island back on the spotlight

Cuba (http://mashable.com/category/cuba/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) has long been one of the least connected countries in the world. Indeed, the country rivals **rth Korea in the extent to which it has shut itself out from the Internet

Here are five things you need to k**w about Internet freedom in Cuba, a country that blogger and Cuban dissident Yoani Sanchez calls "the Island of the disconnected."

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