[Mexico / Social Media] - The Protective Self Deletes the Image to Feed a Phantom of Innocence

Event Baseline: Mexico's president signed a decree requiring social media platforms to remove violent content for users under 18, with the possibility of tougher measures.

The state mistakes the representation of violence for the actual violence. By banning the image, it creates an escape from the violence that lives inside every human. The child is not protected; the child is isolated from the mirror that could reveal the self's own aggression. This is the flight from what is. The state believes that deleting pixels will delete the underlying conflict, but the conflict is in the observer, not the observed. The observer is the observed; the violent self projects its fear onto the screen. This law is a phantom of control, and it will leave the actual violence undisturbed.