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2020-09-20T18:10:58.765Z


Understanding that censorship needs power prevents us from confusing it with simple differences in the opinions of specific people


Members of an indigenous community during the II Continental Summit on Indigenous Communication, in a Mixe town in the northern highlands of Oaxaca. Juan José Estrada Serafín

Censorship is an act of power.

You need not only the desire to silence someone's voice, presence, or ideas, but to have the power to do so with impunity.

Preventing the voice and ideas that we do not want to hear or seem violent to our personal spaces from reaching, for various reasons, such as your own account on social networks, to mention an example, is not an act of censorship.

Censorship needs power.

To censor, it is necessary to have the power to silence the voice and ideas in common spaces, the spaces where public debate takes place, in the ...

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