Cuba: We're forced to 'finance' the Internet

CUBA: WE'RE FORCED TO 'FINANCE' THE INTERNET
[SOURCE: C-Net|News.com, AUTHOR: Declan McCullagh]
A Cuba government official told a United Nations summit that the U.S. government was to blame for the poor Internet access that its citizens enjoy. Juan Fernandez, a Cuban government official in the Commission of Electronic Commerce, on Wednesday assailed the U.S. government's economic embargo and argued that, as a result, poorer countries are "financing" the Internet. Fernandez's only problem was that a longtime Internet engineer and researcher was present and challenged those claims. Bill Woodcock, research director of the nonprofit Packet Clearing House who has set up Internet exchange points in Latin America and other developing nations, replied by saying that the Cuban government's problems stem from its own telecommunications monopoly and its official censorship policies.
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