Yoani Sanchez Says Google and Twitter Protect Cubans’ Freedom of Expression

Yoani Sanchez Says Google and Twitter Protect Cubans' Freedom of
Expression / Cubanet
Posted on October 31, 2013

Senior executives from Google and Twitter promised Cuban blogger Yoani
Sánchez that they would technological tools to protect the freedom of
expression of Cuban civil society.

The author of the blog Generation Y, in an interview with
martinoticias.com, said that with her visit to Silicon Valley in
California she established serious conversations with these social media
giants regarding the need for protection of Cuban activists.

Twitter Representatives agreed to provide resources to detect fake
profiles used by people in the service of the Cuban government to
discredit and threaten independent journalists living in Cuba.

During a meeting with students and professors at the University of
Miami, Sanchez spoke about the elements that characterize the current
Cuban civil society and the impact of technology as a force for change
to awaken youth and the Cuban population general from their apathy.

For Sanchez, technology is a unifying element that will help the Cuban
people to lose their fear of the Castro regime. Her plan to create a
digital newspaper aims to contribute to this.

With regards to that publication she said that there are 8 journalists
preparing every detail of the launch, so this will be "a newspaper of
the 21st century." So that it can circulate in a printed edition in
Cuba, it will be available on the site in a pdf version.

For young people at the University of Miami, who have studied Yoani
Sánchez's work in class, it was particularly interesting to see the
positive spirit this communicator maintains, in the face of daily
obstacles in Cuba.

The blogger, who has over 526,000 followers on her Twitter account, is
considered a pioneer in the use of new technologies in Cuba.

Cubanet, 30 October 2013

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