Cuba Creates its Own Facebook-Like Social Network
Cuba Creates its Own Facebook-Like Social Network
Published at 2:18 pm, December 1, 2011
"Redsocial," the Cuban carbon copy of Mark Zuckerberg's social network
Facebook, is the island's new "Virtual meeting point for Cuban
Universities."
The government of brothers Fidel and Raúl Castro launched this new
social network that is accessible only from Cuba.
The webpage was created by the Cuban Education Ministry, as a way to
link together all higher education institutions in the island.
The new Cuban Social Network not only looks and feels exactly like
Facebook, but curiously contains the word "Facebook" in it's domain
(facebook.ismm.edu.cu).
According to official data, and despite the government declaring
internet for everyone back in 2009, only 2% of Cubans have an internet
connection. This could be why Facebook's legal team hasn't coming
knocking on the Castro governments door for trademark infringement.
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