Over 1 Million Cubans Evade Internet Curbs With U.S.-Backed Tech
Over 1 Million Cubans Evade Internet Curbs With U.S.-Backed Tech
(Bloomberg) -- More than 1 million people in Cuba per day are using an anti-censorship tool supported by the U.S. government to evade government blackouts of social media such as Facebook.
Censorship-circumvention software company Psiphon Inc. says it has facilitated the transfer of over 600 terabytes of data from users in Cuba since Sunday, when many social media sites stopped working in the country.
Psiphon uses proxy servers that disguise internet traffic so that it flies under the radar of many censorship methods. The Toronto-based nonprofit has received funding from the Open Technology Fund, a U.S. government nonprofit that aims to support global internet freedom technologies. Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn praised the technology in a Tweet Friday.
On Thursday, President Biden said the U.S. is examining whether it’s able to restore internet access shut down by the Cuban government.
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