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By Vera BergengruenNovember 19, 2021 3:23 PM ESTOn Nov. 9, Cuban journalist Elaine Diaz was trying to send out a newsletter to the subscribers of Periodismo de Barrio, her watchdog news site covering human rights issues on the island, when she got an error message on her screen.The U.S.-based service she had been using, MailChimp, had suddenly and unexpectedly eliminated her account. They did it without prior warning, for being based in Cuba, she wrote on Twitter. Itrsquo not the first Cuban af1 outlet to go through this experience. Shameful.As Internet access has exploded on the island, an increasing number of Cuban journalists, activists, dissidents and artists find themselves locked out of the online platforms and services used by th ugg e rest of the worldmdash;not by their communist government, but due to restrictions imposed on American companies by the broad, 60-year-old U.S. embargo. In recent years, they have been abruptly blocked from cloud services, file transfer sites, social media managers, editing software, development apps, video calling, free education platforms and NFT marketplaces. It not only shuts them out of the global digital economy, several young Cubans tell TIME, it also makes it harder to create content and reach a airmax wider audience. The restrictions come on top of the Cuban governmentrsquo own tight grip on Internet access for its citizens through the state-owned telecommunications monopoly, ETECSA, which blocks news websites |
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