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Um obrigado ao Juan Prada por ter-nos cedido o texto para publicação neste espaço. 

 

 

 

   In contrast to the widely held supposition that telecommunications networks make no territorial distinctions, political power systems today are responding worldwide by strengthening geographical ties to their decisions, through new divisionary tactics, territorial separations, and barriers to prevent people from moving. Migration is becoming increasingly difficult, almost always subject to illegality and suspicion. Tactics continue to focus on localization and using borders for political ends. “To inhabit” still means to inhabit a specific place in the economic and political hierarchy. In the last few years it has become evident that the Internet is not a system that truly transcends borders. Instead, territorial limits have a strong influence on it. Clearly, equal access to the Internet is not available in all parts of the world. In addition to radically different speeds, possibilities and costs of connecting to the Web in different places, political factors may also limit free speech (e.g., in some countries, many bloggers are tried and sentenced) and access to certain information (results vary among countries for certain key words on the most popular Internet search engines, and there are even places where no results whatsoever are shown in searches for terms of a delicate nature).