On Tuesday, actress Karla Sofía Gascón returned to The anthill Four months after their first visit, the reunion between the presenter and the guest was radically different from the relationship they established on the first day. The change in attitude on both sides had a clear trigger: the scandal of the actress's xenophobic, Islamophobic, anti-Catalan, and classist tweets that affected her image days before the Oscars gala.

Two months after the Oscars, Karla Sofía Gascón is still keen to talk about the personal repercussions of the resurgence of racist and xenophobic messages she shared on social media years before becoming world famous thanks to Emilia Pérez. During his visit to the program The anthill This Tuesday, the actress, who saw her chances of winning an Oscar fade after the messages were made public, said she even considered "disappearing."

The Union of Actors and Actresses of Spain awarded Karla Sofía Gascón this Monday as best actress in an international production for her work in Emilia Perez. It is the first award that the actress receives after the controversy caused by racist tweets which were made public a few weeks before the Oscar nominations, and which destroyed her image among many of the voters of the Hollywood Academy.

"In the midst of this unexpected and devastating storm, there have been times when the pain has been so overwhelming that I have considered the unthinkable. I have harbored darker thoughts than I had in some of my previous struggles, which were also intimate and personal. When pushed to the limit, what would have become of someone with fewer emotional resources to withstand that onslaught? Somehow, I have succeeded. It is a small part of the long letter that actress Karla Sofía Gascón (Madrid, 52 years old) has made public through the American media. The Hollywood ReporterThese are the first statements from the protagonist of the narco-musical Emilia Perez, after attending the Oscars gala. The actress, who made history by being thethe first trans actress nominated for an Oscar, generated a lot of controversy because some tweets in which he launched racist and Islamophobic messages: against the Black Lives Matter movement, against the diversity of the Oscars, against the "fucking Moors", against the Chinese community and the "drug addict scammer" George Floyd, who was murdered at the hands of the police, among other pearls.

10 years ago, Sean Baker released a film, Tangerine, about two transgender prostitutes from Los Angeles who worked mostly at the intersection of Santa Monica and Highland. Just a 15-minute walk from that corner, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Baker collected the Oscar for best film on Monday for another vibrant, tender and funny story about sex workers. Anora, the best film of 2024 according to the ARA critics, has won a total of five Oscars: best film, director, actress, original screenplay and editing. A fair and important triumph, because it rewards an independent cinema that always stands by the oppressed and the marginalized, that gives voice to the most invisible in American society and that celebrates the beauty and imperfection of its protagonists without paternalism or condescension.

Ten years ago, Sean Baker a movie was released, Tangerine, about two transgender prostitutes from Los Angeles who worked mostly at the intersection of Santa Monica and Highland. Just a fifteen-minute walk from that corner, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Baker collected the Oscar for best film on Monday for another vibrant, tender and funny story about sex workers. Anora, the best film of 2024 according to ARA critics, has won five Oscars: best film, director, actress, original screenplay and editing. A fair and important triumph, because it rewards an independent cinema that is always on the side of the oppressed and the marginalized, that gives voice to the most invisible in American society and that celebrates the beauty and imperfection of its protagonists without paternalism or condescension.

Actress and singer Selena Gomez co-stars alongside Karla Sofia Gascon in the Oscar-nominated film Emilia Perez, broke the silence after the controversy over the racist, homophobic and insulting tweets of the Spanish actress. "Part of the magic has disappeared, but I choose to continue being proud of what I have done and I am, quite simply, grateful. I live without regret," said the actress, whom Karla Sofía Gascón called in a message rescued from her Twitter account a "rich rat" who makes herself miserable. Gascón assured in an interview on CNN that she did not recognize that the tweet was hers and asked for forgiveness, but also denounced being victim of cancel culture.

Actress and singer Selena Gomez co-stars alongside Karla Sofia Gascon in the Oscar-nominated film Emilia Perez, broke the silence after the controversy over the racist, homophobic and insulting tweets of the Spanish actress. "Part of the magic has disappeared, but I choose to continue being proud of what I have done and I am, quite simply, grateful. I live without regret," said the actress, whom Karla Sofía Gascón called in a message rescued from her Twitter account a "rich rat" who makes herself miserable. Gascón assured in an interview on CNN that she did not recognize that the tweet was hers and asked for forgiveness, but also denounced being victim of cancel culture.

In a very short time, we have witnessed the controversies generated on social networks by the transsexual actress Karla García Gascón and by the writer JK Rowling (referring, precisely, to political issues related to transsexuality). This is not the subject of this article, however. Following these two cases, I would like to explore a problematic and even uncomfortable point, which is the possibility of information control in a technological context such as the current one and within the framework of a democratic society. The social standardization of new technologies is not serving, in general terms, to strengthen the democratic project, but quite the opposite. Pseudoscientific ideas or political proposals openly hostile to democratic principles are in full swing. With a simple mobile phone in hand, anyone can spread large-scale nonsense that will reach millions of people instantly. What is the underlying problem? The democratic system is unviable in the long term with the growing expansion of ideas and attitudes such as those described, but it is also unviable with the sustained control of opinion, that is, with what has always been called censorship. Some believe that the only way to neutralize this risk is to update censorship, that is, to readjust the repressive mechanisms of the state to the new technological scenario. In my opinion, this is going back a long way and, furthermore, it is contradictory: restricting democracy in the name of democracy does not seem like a good idea.