CPJ - Committee to Protect Journalists, based in New York, has declared on its site that what causes surprise is not the list of those who oppress the internet, but how fast they adapt their usual oppressing strategies to the online world.
Brazil is not listed as a key oppressing country on the special report "The 10 Tools of Online Oppressors" (http://beta.cpj.org/reports/2011/04/the-10-tools-of-online-oppr). However, we have already shown in this blog how Veja magazine did censor our comments - as well as others' - under the guise of "moderation": REVISTA VEJA CENSURA NA INTERNET PARA MANTER ACOBERTADOS ESCÂNDALOS FINANCEIROS DA IGREJA CATÓLICA
Not a few consultants have given recommendations about preventing your facebook page from ruining a job offer. Things subtle - and apparently well-intended - as these are in fact ways of smothering and controlling.
It is essential to realize that the issue is not only what one says, but the very fact that someone expresses him or herself freely to the world, because that incites in every human being the awareness of his/her strength, since it strongly contributes to building an independent identity, that is, identity that relies not in rules (explicit or not) but in one's own thinking and values.
Whenever this genuine identity overtakes the shaped identity, power loses ground - that is why churches, most teachers and parents, just as much as strict political power, exercise oppresion.
Yesterday, 3, was the World Day for the Freedom of Press.
