Why Cuba couldn’t control the internet

Re:Why Cuba couldn’t control the internet by bryan_w on Thursday July 22, 2021 @12:09AM (#27915232)

I wonder if one day we'll see the parachuting of starlink satellites on a people as an act of war.

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Re:Why Cuba couldn’t control the internet by yodon on Thursday July 22, 2021 @12:51AM (#27915499)

I suspect your comment may have been intended as a joke but airborne leaflet dropping has been a thing for at least 150 years[0] and the Voice of America sent broadcast messages deep into the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Governments speaking directly to an opposing population is neither new nor classified as an act of war (however much it may piss off the receiving government).

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_leaflet_propaganda

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Re:Why Cuba couldn’t control the internet by joecool1029 on Thursday July 22, 2021 @01:36AM (#27915738)

Forget Cold War stuff, the US broadcasts state-run propaganda directly to Cuba currently as it has for decades: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_y_Televisi%C3%B3n_Mart...

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Re:Why Cuba couldn’t control the internet by jchallis on Thursday July 22, 2021 @01:19AM (#27915642)

I could get Radio Havana’s English language service on my shortwave during the early aughts. I was quite deep into the central US.

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