Article 7 Political Constitution of the United Mexican States
First Title · Chapter I. On Human Rights and Their Guarantees
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 2 June 2026
The freedom to disseminate opinions, information and ideas, through any medium, is inviolable. This right may not be restricted by indirect ways or means, such as the abuse of official or private controls, of paper for newspapers, of radioelectric frequencies or of implements and apparatus used in the dissemination of information or by any other means and technologies of information and communication aimed at impeding the transmission and circulation of ideas and opinions.
No law or authority may establish prior censorship, nor restrict the freedom of dissemination, which has no limits other than those provided in the first paragraph of article 6o. of this Constitution. In no case may the goods used for the dissemination of information, opinions and ideas be seized, as an instrument of the crime.