Looking for an easy way to stick it to the Cuban dictatorship?
Visit Generación Y, the most popular Cuba-based blog.
Apparently, the dictatorship is so afraid of Yoani Sanchez and her writings, it using filtering software to restrict the ability of computer users on the island to visit her site.
The Wall Street Journal reports:
Cuba appears to have limited access from within the island to the nation's most-read Web site, Generacion Y, a highly critical blog written from Havana.The author of the Web site, Yoani Sanchez, complained in a post Monday that for the last few days, users on the island get an error message when attempting to access her writing. "Another site blocked for the 'monitored' Inter-nauts of the island," she wrote.
Internet users in Cuba confirmed that access to Ms. Sanchez's site, as well as a few others, had become excruciatingly slow, if not impossible, in recent days.
It wasn't immediately possible to verify whether the Cuban government had taken actions to restrict access to Ms. Sanchez's site.
Cuban authorities are believed to use filtering software and other techniques to reduce access to certain sites, effectively blocking them. Such a strategy allows the government to avoid the bad publicity of snuffing out Web sites.
Read more about Sanchez — a niece of imprisoned Cuban journalist Adolfo Fernández Saínz — here.
Also, Spain's ABC newspaper has an interview with Sanchez.
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