One of the reasons the Peoples’ Mic is an effective tool for overcoming institutional censorship is that it relies on no technology whatsoever — nothing that requires electricity and nothing that can set off a metal detector.  All it requires is a group of people committed to communicating a message.

Also, its horizontalidad confuses repressive authorities, who — because they think hierarchically — look for a leader to arrest. But arresting or evicting any given wielder of the microphone proves futile, since the people’s voice then merely shifts to another body and the message continues.

See peoples’ mic at work elsewhere:

• during a speech by the C.E.O. of Blue Cross/Blue Shield at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
• during a speech by the C.E.O. of Wells Fargo in Minnesota
• during the proceedings of a “Birthright Israel” indoctrination