Subversive U.S. app allows Cubans to send jokes to each other

[Josephus]

I find the most interesting thing about this;

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2014/04/04/cuban_media_tout_revelations_of_secret_twitter_as_confirmation_of_us_hostile_intentions.html


is this:

Some 40,000 island cellphone users signed up and used ZunZuneo to receive and send text messages, mostly innocuous jokes or snippets of international, sports and entertainment news.

[HVC]

I never got why America is so obsessed with Cuba. Not Americans, America. I get it in the Cold War, but now?  I know florida's Cuban population means the embargo won't end while Fidel's  alive, but what's the point of stuff like this?

[Valmy]

I never got why America is so obsessed with Cuba. Not Americans, America. I get it in the Cold War, but now?  I know florida's Cuban population means the embargo won't end while Fidel's  alive, but what's the point of stuff like this?

I don't get it either.  The communist regime would have been long gone without our opposition propping them up.

[Admiral Yi]

The point appears to be to give Cubans the chance to speak freely without fear of retribution.

[HVC]

The point appears to be to give Cubans the chance to speak freely without fear of retribution.

damn, you can't even do that in America. See: anti gay marriage CEO guy

[Caliga]

  Dude, seriously there's no comparison between AmeriKKKa and Cuba.

I interviewed a guy once who was a software engineer in Cuba and who helped run an underground newspaper that criticized the Castro regime.  At some point the government discovered his involvement and gave him two options: a) go to prison, or b) leave Cuba within 48 hours.  He obviously chose option b.  Shit like that would never happen here of course.

[HVC]

*cough* Snowden *cough*


I Kidd, I Kidd.

[Ed Anger]

GOD DAMN AMERICA

[Neil]

I never got why America is so obsessed with Cuba. Not Americans, America. I get it in the Cold War, but now?  I know florida's Cuban population means the embargo won't end while Fidel's  alive, but what's the point of stuff like this?

I don't think Fidel makes that much of a difference anymore.  At this point, the Cubans just need a nice fat payout for all their 'losses' in the revolution.

[Caliga]

I don't think Fidel makes that much of a difference anymore.  At this point, the Cubans just need a nice fat payout for all their 'losses' in the revolution.

Why would you put that in quotes?  Tons of Cuban exiles did in fact lose their property and wealth when they fled or were booted out.

[Neil]

I don't think Fidel makes that much of a difference anymore.  At this point, the Cubans just need a nice fat payout for all their 'losses' in the revolution.

Why would you put that in quotes?  Tons of Cuban exiles did in fact lose their property and wealth when they fled or were booted out.

They don't deserve to be compensated.

[Caliga]

Are you confusing Cubans with gays?

[Neil]

Are you confusing Cubans with gays?

Not this time.  Sometimes, some people are on the wrong side of history, and they take a hit.  Sort of like the Jews in Poland.

[11B4V]

Commies.....

[The Brain]

Dude, seriously there's no comparison between AmeriKKKa and Cuba.

I interviewed a guy once who was a software engineer in Cuba and who helped run an underground newspaper that criticized the Castro regime.  At some point the government discovered his involvement and gave him two options: a) go to prison, or b) leave Cuba within 48 hours.  He obviously chose option b.  Shit like that would never happen here of course.

People are literally dying to leave Cuba.