主题：【原创】美国的特点，及优势，之二：制度、规则 -- 铁手

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.

美国的确有说话的自由，但是你说的话，可以没有任何人当做一回事。这和其他国家你一说话政府就紧张，那是完全不同的待遇。就好比小孩子哭闹，有的家长就容易紧张，有的家长根本不理睬。理与不理，小孩子继续哭闹的可能性也就不一样。这也决定了到底是家长做主，还是小孩子做主。