World Wide, Not!

Blackmail Against Cuba on the Net

The alternative media are still rejecting the new crude global effort to attack and isolate Cuba, after the complaint by the American newspaper The New York Times denounced the prohibition established by the White House on American public access to digital sites and web pages from different points on the planet if their content relates to the island.According to a report, 557 companies and 3,719.com domains were blocked by the Office of the Department of the Treasury without prior notice to their promoters or users in the Union itself. With this discriminatory practice the monopoly on the overall media universe that the United States exerts is confirmed once again, a real privilege in the hands of the powerful. The World Internet Usage Statistics website reported that of more than 6.6 billion people around the globe, only some 1.32 billion have access to the World Wide Web, that is, barely 20 percent of the overall population. The differences by area confirm the unevenness of levels. While North American users account for 71 percent of the regional population, and in Europe the figure is 43 percent, Africans are less than five percent of the inhabitants with coverage of the Internet of such a populated geographic area. Among the disadvantaged are also included Latin Americans, 22 percent of Internet users in Asia with little more than 13 per cent, despite its nearly four billion people. So the reality is obvious and clear. The powerful, and especially the wealthy American consumer society and its violent drivers, stand not only as virtual owners of Internet use, but also in global censors to try to maintain the network of networks in their exclusive service and alien to opinions, criteria and alternative interpretations.