| It's been a while now since "El Paquete" became the main distribution channel of online content in Cuba, a lot has been written about this before. A less known aspect of this topic is the net neutrality issues that this kind of distribution imply. At the end of the day, all the content come from this mighty anonymous source that download and distribute the content for a profit, presumably a huge profit. This source is god, he or she has the last word of what get in and what is left out. So, since the beginning of "El Paquete" my website revolico.com went in. Revolico content (classifieds ads) is like a basic need in a market with almost 100% goverment control over the retail space (price fixing, availability, etc.), but about a month ago our content was left out, with a note that said that it would no longer be available because it has been used to for the purposes of “personal and political defamation against the country and its citizens.”, I was like WTF, is this the goverment infiltrating "El Paquete"? is a nasty move of our competitors? Who knows, the problem is that one guy has the power to decide what is ditribute it and what is not. This is not good by any mean. Two weeks after revolico came back to "El Paquete", everything points that the customers were asking for it, so the producers were forced to include it again. "El Paquete" is one of the best things that is happen in Cuba digital space right now, but a not centralized version is mandatory to make it less vulnerable to goverment control or other kind of arbitrariness. More on this: http://cubanotes.com/is-the-cuban-government-censoring-el-pa... http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/23/cuba-offline-in... |