Comments on: Cuba: Blocking Bloggers http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/03/28/cuba-blocking-bloggers/ Defending Free Speech Online Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:05:14 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Catfish99 http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/03/28/cuba-blocking-bloggers/comment-page-1/#comment-9404 Catfish99 Wed, 07 May 2008 14:01:48 +0000 http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/03/28/cuba-blocking-bloggers/#comment-9404 News of Yoani's inability to leave Havana (Cuba) to pick up her Ortega y Gasset Prize is mentioned in an article in today's <a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/Cuba/impide/Yoani/Sanchez/desplazarse/Madrid/recoger/Ortega/Gasset/elpepuint/20080507elpepuint_14/Tes" rel="nofollow">El Pais</a> Another related development - it seems that her site, and the portal that she runs is now unavailable. A visit this morning to http://www.desdecuba.com/generaciony/ http://www.desdecuba.com reveals a rather stark - page unavailable - error. It could mean the site is getting a lot of hits, or something more ominous - such as her site being taken down by the Cuban authorities, hackers, or something else. News of Yoani’s inability to leave Havana (Cuba) to pick up her Ortega y Gasset Prize is mentioned in an article in today’s El Pais

Another related development – it seems that her site, and the portal that she runs is now unavailable. A visit this morning to

http://www.desdecuba.com/generaciony/
http://www.desdecuba.com

reveals a rather stark – page unavailable – error. It could mean the site is getting a lot of hits, or something more ominous – such as her site being taken down by the Cuban authorities, hackers, or something else.

]]> By: av2ts http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/03/28/cuba-blocking-bloggers/comment-page-1/#comment-8961 av2ts Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:48:30 +0000 http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/03/28/cuba-blocking-bloggers/#comment-8961 Wow, this must be a first. A "banned" blog that keeps getting updated by its host in Havana (Yoani posted updates today and yesterday). She claims slow access, but admits other non-political sites have had trouble recently (something Spanish reports have emphasized but gets left out of the US media). One might think if the authorities really wanted to block access to the blog, they would not allow it to be updated and read? But Cuba has long been a place where truth is malleable. Wow, this must be a first. A “banned” blog that keeps getting updated by its host in Havana (Yoani posted updates today and yesterday). She claims slow access, but admits other non-political sites have had trouble recently (something Spanish reports have emphasized but gets left out of the US media). One might think if the authorities really wanted to block access to the blog, they would not allow it to be updated and read? But Cuba has long been a place where truth is malleable.

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