It was interesting to read about the ways in which people have developed work-arounds for accessing content, digital media, and internet in Cuba. The title of the article, “Cuba’s DIY internet revolution”, seemed to misrepresent the author’s opinion of what people were doing with technology.

The headline implies that something new and revolutionary is happening-- yet what the author describes in the article has been in existence for quite some time and the author even describes the future of access and internet in Cuba as somewhat bleak because of Trump and Cuban government etc...

I was confused about the tone of this article bc the author seems to have a “wow! so impressive they were Able to do this!” attitude while at the same time being like “damn they really are so primitive out here with their tech it's too bad they don't have silicon valley!”

Even though he acknowledged that tech won't “save” Cuba.. it still seemed like he was unable to look at what was going on without a westernized lens. I also get that this was published through Wired (& for a techy startup audience), but I was still uncomfortable with the notion that Cuban people were so deprived and missing out from Silicon Valley.

“By God, what could these people accomplish if they didn’t have the government gorilla sitting on their faces, asphyxiating everything? Or if they had easy access to all that Silicon Valley has to offer?”

The author mentioned a few times that Cubans are really missing out on “propitious business environment[s]”-- and was implying that its too bad Cubans can’t have technocapitalism like us in the West! Despite this-- still thought it was really sweet how people have developed ways of sharing, and learning about the paquettes was something I had not known about prior to reading this.