Cuba is a communist island and it was just recently that they got a taste of freedom through free market from the popular website that is similar to Craigslist. Unfortunately, the communist island had blocked the site from being accessed in Cuba.
The said site is Revolico.com and Cubans noticed lately that when they enter the site, they get redirected to Google. When they search for the name through Google and click on the link, they still get redirected back.
Computer experts in Cuba said that there is a content filter that is used to prevent the access to the site Revolico.com. The site became very popular, with millions of page views every month and in an island with the economy being tightly controlled, this raised an eyebrow to their government. The consumer goods in Cuba are quite expensive and with the free market around, they can no longer control the price and cheaper rates would become available.
Revolico.com allows Cubans to buy and sell items that are not controlled by the monopoly of their government. Whether or not the government is blocking the site is still unclear and unproven but it was reported that in the past, the authorities of Cuba had sent out reports of prohibit access to the said site.
Though the site is being blocked, people can still find a way to bypass the filter and tips on how to bypass the filter circulates via email to Cubans.
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