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发帖数: 21 | 1 宪法是西方社会一切活动的基础，而言论自由作为公民的一项基本权利被写进了宪法。
然而对于任何社会都存在一种趋
势：那就是特权阶级不惜危害社会而追求自己的利益，东方社会如此，西方社会也不例
外。在西方社会，特权阶级追逐
利益但同时规避侵犯言论自由的违宪行为，他们发展出了一系列途径，“a web of
contracts, loans, shareholdings,
bank holdings and so on”， 这些途径复杂而精明，不管大众说什么，都无力改变特
权阶级损人利己的局面，这时候我
们就看清楚了：言论自由贬值，它已经被特权阶级巧妙架空，丧失了原来促进社会公正
、抑制特权少数危害社会的价值
－－这些价值才是言论自由可贵的基础。如果将原本可贵的言论自由比喻成金子， 那
么在西方社会人们仍然有金子，但
它贬值了，在中国等言论自由等被一定程度压制的国家，人们的金子不多有时被掠夺，
但金子依然是值钱的金子，因为
它依然有撼动社会政权格局、影响特权阶级的能量。西方和东方的特权阶级采取了不同
的手段：一个架空，一个压制。
理想的情况应该是有金子，而且金子不贬值：人们享有言论自由，且这促言论自由依然
有影响政权的力量。
朱阿哥对西方社会中“言论自由”贬值是失望的，他希望言论自由依然有影响政权的力
量。我们从他最后一句话中却可以
看出他隐约有殉道的伟大精神：“The attacks against us by the US point to a
great hope, speech powerful
enough to break the fiscal blockade.“ 如果我们民众拥有的言论自由依然可以对
政权有影响力的话，如果维基解密对
事实的揭露政府还能Care的话，那美国抓我就抓我吧，至少这表明了言论还是有影响的！
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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. |
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