This Article explores how one-party totalitarian states deal with the information and modes of communication that the Internet offers by analyzing the methods used in Cuba and China. Specifically, by using the ICCPR as a rubric for human rights norms, this Article shows that greater access to the Internet and technology does not necessarily lead to a freer society. As the resistance to the Cuban and Chinese Internet restrictions show, the people of these countries are not merely seeking Internet access-they are seeking the freedom to use that access on their
own terms, without government surveillance or intervention. The core problem is the governments' lack of respect for human rights. After exposing the ICCPR violations of these two signatory countries, this Article reveals a blatant hypocrisy on the parts of Cuba and China, along with an in-depth look at how real people deal with this hypocrisy on a daily basis

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Como citar: Villalobos, K. M. (2015). Digital oppression in Cuba and China: A comparative study of ICCPR violations. Florida State University Journal of Transnational Law & Policy, 24(1), 161-204.