Cuba

If you or a family member belong to the politic elite, then you enjoy unfettered Internet access. Otherwise, you live under a regime in which connections to the outside Internet are subject to censorship.

Cubans convicted of publishing "counter-revolutionary" articles on foreign-hosted websites are at risk of serving as many as 20 years in jail. If they connect illegally to an international Internet network, they also risk five years in jail. A planned underwater optical fiber cable linking Cuba to Venezuela is expected to go into operation in 2011.

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