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

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