During his March 2016 visit to Cuba, Barack Obama raved about an impending Google-Cuba deal “to start setting up more Wi-Fi access and broadband access on the island.” Greater access, he predicted, would mean “more information [that] allows [the Cuban people] to have more of a voice.”Eighteen months later Mr. Obama’s forecast looks worse than a hollow platitude. Google has become a supplier of resources to the regime so that Raúl Castro can run internet at faster speeds for his own purposes. Meanwhile the company appears...

Source: Wall Street Journal August 27, 2017 21:00 UTC