At the Computers, Freedom, & Privacy Conference at Yale tonight, a number of my dinner companions insisted that Raul Castro had lifted the restriction on ordinary Cubans accessing the Internet. I said that was not the case, but backed down out of sheer wussiness. I need to work on that. The new Cuban leader has indeed allowed Cubans to buy personal computers, but tis a far, far different thing than allowing unfettered access to the World Wide Web.
