*Amendments to the Telecommunications Law have generated controversy
*Changes to the law mean private media licensees will be responsible for their content
*President Sheinbaum stressed that the dissemination of foreign propaganda will not be allowed
*Changes to the law seek to prevent the media from disseminating hostile campaigns
*Reform will maintain state control over the country's radio electric spectrum
*Changes to the law mean private media licensees will be responsible for their content
*President Sheinbaum stressed that the dissemination of foreign propaganda will not be allowed
*Changes to the law seek to prevent the media from disseminating hostile campaigns
*Reform will maintain state control over the country's radio electric spectrum
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00:00After the United States paid Mexican media to disseminate a hostile and aggressive anti-immigrant campaign,
00:07academics and specialists agreed on the importance of the recently approved reform to the telecommunications law
00:13to maintain the sovereignty of the Mexican government.
00:16Antonio Aranda with the details.
00:21Amendments to the telecommunications law are being debated in Mexico to generate regulations that will allow the Mexican government
00:28to maintain national sovereignty and prevent foreign governments from broadcasting propaganda in national media.
00:38When we have a message from a foreign government, which is frankly interventionist in the internal affairs of the country, or as in this case,
00:50which raises a message that has a clear discriminatory content,
00:54we want the state to have certain tools, perhaps techniques,
00:57to safeguard certain national interests regardless of which party is in power.
01:08The amendments to the telecommunications law have generated controversy
01:11by including the possibility of temporarily blocking a digital platform.
01:15However, this should not be considered censorship, according to this specialist.
01:18When Donald Trump's spots appeared on private national television,
01:27the spots appeared, the proposal to make these changes appeared,
01:30and it is evidently because we are in an ideological war.
01:34The opposition, the enemies of the fourth transformation,
01:36the enemies of the system link it to a process of censorship.
01:39But of course there is no process of censorship.
01:41The changes to the telecommunications law will help to make private media licensees responsible
01:54for the broadcasting of their content.
01:56There is the issue of the spots that come from other parts of the world,
02:05but on the other hand it is urgent that we make the private and public media responsible
02:08for what they say for what they do.
02:10It is urgent something similar to order because we are not having it,
02:14and that is why the changes in the law are not only for the issue of spots from other entities.
02:26President Claudia Sheinbaum announced the withdrawal of Article 109 of the initiative
02:30to avoid controversy on the issue of censorship,
02:33but stressed that the dissemination of foreign propaganda will not be allowed.
02:38This article that generated confusion is completely eliminated,
02:43and it is also stated that no foreign government can make political or ideological propaganda
02:48in Mexico paid as commercial as paid propaganda.
02:54The changes to the law seek to prevent the public and private media
03:00from disseminating campaigns such as the one led by Kristi Noem.
03:03The United States Secretary of Security, who in a criminalizing tone warns migrants
03:08that crossing illegally into the United States will have serious consequences.
03:12You are considering entering America illegally?
03:15Don't even think about it.
03:16Let me be clear.
03:18If you come to our country and you break our laws, we will hunt you down.
03:21President Sheinbaum has stated that the changes to the telecommunications law
03:29will allow maintaining the state's control over the radio-electric spectrum,
03:32which is the property of the nation.
03:33Antonio Aranda Telesur, Ciudad de México.