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主题:美国精英对美国选票制度的批判。 -- dolong

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家园 Wikileaks果然NB,阿桑奇说“言论自由”

Julian Assange

The west has fiscalised its basic power relationships through a web of contracts, loans, shareholdings, bank holdings and so on. In such an environment it is easy for speech to be "free" because a change in political will rarely leads to any change in these basic instruments. Western speech, as something that rarely has any effect on power, is, like badgers and birds, free. In states like China, there is pervasive censorship, because speech still has power and power is scared of it. We should always look at censorship as an economic signal that reveals the potential power of speech in that jurisdiction. The attacks against us by the US point to a great hope, speech powerful enough to break the fiscal blockade.

因为言论没有能量(power),才有言论自由。西方社会的言论不会对权力产生影响(Western speech, as something that rarely has any effect on power),而中国的言论对政治权力有很大的影响。

问答实录link: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/12/03/wikileaks.assange.qanda/index.html

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