When I visited Cuba, the censorship was unreal. One website per hour. One website per hour! You had to go to these public cafe’s where you could rent internet time on a monitored line. That’s extreme throttling censorship. The only way to understand it is to see if for yourself.
But it can be more casual, too.
Did you know? If your upload speed is throttled to 20 MBPS, you are being censored. People out in the country know all about it, and they would pitch in that you can even censor with latency, where 750ms (STANDARD for satellite in the country) is enough to sever your relationship with the outside world’s VoIP calling.
Remember the days of 56k? Man that was bad. Great ping times though. You actually didn’t have it that bad compared to 750ms.. hah!
… and for ~$150/month, satellite internet is also quite expensive. Yes, this paywall is also a form of censorship.
Remember that debate about net neutrality on the internet?
In the very near future, upload speed will matter a lot more. It will be the difference between those who can host, and those who cannot. It will mean the difference between those who have an effective local AI, and those who do not.
Put differently, this difference in bandwidth and ping time creates an unnecessary disparity between the have’s and the have nots. And folks in the country have long known this; or maybe they were simply living as fish would in water?
The answer to this puzzle piece, my friends, is in sharing upload bandwidth. We do this also with the help of HAM, both above ground and below. Trustlessly, of course…
