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Google Bans Cuban Blogger

CUBA, March 29, 2010. -  Internet giant Google INC cut off Cuban writer and essayist Henry Ubieta’s access to his ‘La Isla Desconocida’ (The unknown Island) blog, hosted on Blogger, and blocked his access to his Gmail account.

Ubieta, who has denounced the brutal campaign waged against Cuba in recent weeks about alleged human rights violations in Cuba, had published a few hours before an article entitled “Demonizing Cuba”, impeccable reasoning of the political undertones that support the new media onslaught.

In a message sent via email and published by Granma International, Ubieta denounces this decision that blatantly violates the right to freedom of expression of Cubans on the Internet.

The blogger notes that last Friday, after browsing the net for topics related to what he usually writes, he logged out his blog for a few hours, and to his amazement, when he tried to access his Gmail account he was faced by a warning stating: “account temporarily disabled.”

But when trying to open his blog he was truly shocked with a further notice from Blogger: “The blog was deleted. Sorry, the blog “laisladesconocida.blogspot.com” was deleted. This address is not available for new blogs.”

There have been no explanations from Google on that matter up to now. (Cubaminrex - RHC-ACN)

 

 

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