At Sampsonia Way Cuban author Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo writes On the Need for Censorship, noting that the very absence of any guidelines in Cuba already has a pernicious effect:
There aren't even any bureaucratic regulations in place to define what can and cannot be published. It's precisely this fogginess that allows for maximum impunity, since everyone begins to censor everyone else, starting with the self-censorship that every author personally humiliates himself with in order to avoid institutional humiliation.So he suggests:
For there to be freedom of expression under totalitarianism, perhaps we have to start by introducing democracy's mechanisms of censorship. Thereafter, we would have to fight for the right to minimize the spaces occupied by censorshipAn interesting idea -- though I assume the regime has no interest in making things easier for anybody and prefers the current foggy atmosphere of fear.