去年年初 Yuyu Chen 和 David Y. Yang 发表的 The Impact of Media Censorship: Evidence from a Field Experiment in China 一文已经清楚的表明,媒体审查已经使公民对未经审查的信息的需求极度下降。
「What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who would want to read one.」今天的中国年轻人,在使用互联网时,甚至已经不会感觉到自己身处牢笼。鲜少有人会想到,只有特定的账号可以发布国外政治新闻,且经过筛选汇编,对客观事件附以经过审查的、统一口径的主观评论。