Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition News and Article Release Issue: A50-M9
中国民主运动海外联席会议新闻与文章发布号：A50-M9
Release Date: January 28, 2004
发布日：2004年1月28日
Topic: Adventure of "Stainless Steel Mouse" on the Internet (Liu Di)
标题：不銹鋼老鼠上網記 (劉荻)
Original Language Version: Chinese (Chinese version at the end)
此号以中文为准（英文在前，中文在后）
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Editor's words:
I want to take this opportunity to thank the numerous anonymous volunteers and helpers. Your generous time and effort is not just helping Wei Jingsheng as an individual, or Wei Jingsheng Foundation as a NGO, but more for the cause of Chinese human rights and democracy. We thank you for your support.
At the request of our readers, we have Ms. Liu Di's article about herself ("Stainless Steel Mouse") translated for our English readers, by one of our anonymous volunteer. Liu Di is a college student who was detained for more than one year by the Chinese government for her Internet articles and activities. She was just recently released after a major International outcry.
I recommend this article to our readers, although its contents do not represent either Mr. WEI Jingsheng or the Wei Jingsheng Foundation's opinion or stand.
-- Ciping
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Adventure of "Stainless Steel Mouse" on the Internet (Liu Di)
Part 1
I started to touch upon the Internet in the beginning of 2000. I firstly accessed to it from the BBS of several universities, and then from Internet cafes in communities and other places. During this period I only read posted articles, but never wrote my own. In the summer of 2002 I access to the "Forum of Thoughts" chaired by Yonggang Li. Because this forum was attached to "Xici Avenue" with the subtitle of "Society and Humane", I turned to this avenue later. To my amazement, I found the "Forum of democracy" (Renamed as "Democracy and Human Rights" later) over there. This is the precedent of the "Democracy and Freedom" forum. I registered in this forum using the ID of "Stainless Steel Mouse" to facilitate downloading articles, but seldom spoke out. What happened later was that "Forum of Thoughts" was closed, which caused some reactions among readers. Several more forums showed up to facilitate readers downloading the good articles. This forum in Xici was also kept until now, though no longer prominent as before. I felt so complicated when reading an article citing some points of Yonggang Li on democracy recently.
Then in the end of the spring season of 2001, which were one or two months to that sensitive and important Chinese Memorial Day, there was incitement in the Internet. Then news spread that four people, including Mr. Zili Yang, the manager of the "Garden of Thoughts" forum were detained. I often roamed "Garden of Thoughts" forum, because I had to use the represent over there to search the "unpopular" websites overseas. So I was very shocked at the detention of Mr. Yang. As the Memorial Day was closing in, the net-friends in Xici was increasingly incited, so was the situation. There were lots of articles in memorial of this special day posted in the "Forum of Freedom", which was more radical than "Forum of Democracy", until the forum was closed by manager of Xici website, several IDs of brave net-friends were also shut off. There were more and more rumors about Internet secret police at that time. All these incited me to make a decision, as said by Mr. Xiaobo Wang, let me speak out right now. If we kept silent, nobody would speak out in the future. This was the beginning of my writings.
The June was on the corner at last. The website manager declared that the Xici website would be closed from June 1 through 7 due to some "technical reasons". However, the server was still on, so the friends could still sneak in the web from different underground approaches. At that Memorial Day, the friends found all their mouths were shut off all in a sudden, because they could not post any articles. To handle this situation, some friends invented substitute formula to post articles. We had to sigh, what a feeling if our mouths were taped! My memorial article was published just at this time.
Xici website was closed for about one month due to "technical reasons". During this time, there was an article publishing in a newspaper in Nanjing City (the server of Xici website is in this city), which criticized some websites "claimed to follow the directives of officials, but left some outlets for these anti-revolution elements to sneak in". Then several forums like "Democracy and Human Rights" were closed, some other forums were downgraded as "confidential".
The veteran friends on Internet did not want to be timed out. They sought another server to establish the "Community of Smoke and Rain", whose theme was quite similar to Xici. The advantage of this new "Community" was that anybody could open up their own discussion forum, so I establish my own literature forum "Post several oranges". Quite new though, the "Democracy and Freedom" forum in this website was the lead forum in the whole community, and made up most of contents in this community. At the same time, the friends were not satisfied at just posting articles; we wanted to do some practical things. "Smoke and Rain" was the simplified version of Xici, so had many disadvantages, such as no confidential forums and no chatter rooms. So we retorted to the Xici website to open a confidential forum with a humble name "Let's come together". We called it forum 71138 because this was the register number of the forum. Through this new forum we discussed what we could do to help China's progress. We decided to hold Internet meetings at 8:00 pm of every Friday. I was not sure whether this was the first Internet meeting in China. Long time after this forum was cancelled, a friend posted a memorial article entitled "Attending conferences naked", which mean we did not need to dress up when attending Internet meetings, even did not need to dress anything. When I watched TV in detention facility two years later, which reported that the "new" Chinese government would use Internet conference to fight against corruption, I often recalled the date of "gathering" in Internet.
In the discussion, some friends were not satisfied with the Internet gatherings, but wanted to set up a disciplined organization. I opposed this proposal in one of my articles. I was not opposed to leaving the Internet, but I was opposed to the creation of any organizations, because I did not want to suffer the same fate as "The New Youth Association" (of ZiLi Yang, etc.), sort of close-knit organization. What I wanted is just "Let's come together". We could exchange ideas and support each other in this platform of Internet, and had the feeling of homecoming in this increasingly aliened world. With this idea, several friends in Beijing and I threw parties---"Let's climb the mountain and watch movies", as commented by one of them.
During one discussion, a friend contacted Mrs. Li Zeng, the wife of Mr. Qi Huang, who was the manager of "Sky" website and detained in June of 2000. We discussed how to give help to Mr. Huang. At last we donated some money to Ms. Zeng since she was in deep financial difficulty. At this time, I wrote an article "The worms of Xici Freedom Party collectively scramble to Chinese Communist Party and government". This article was the idea of a friend. We also discussed some other proposals, but did not achieve anything.
"The Forum of Smoke and Rain" survived for only 2 months before it was forced to be closed. After that the "Democracy and Freedom" discussions were on the fugitive in over thirty forums. The confidential forum in Xici was still alive through today, but no longer so attracting. Some friends open another confidential forum entitled "Fan Club of People's Daily". The title was changed to "Group of People's Daily's Readers" later. There were some jokes simulating the inner Communist Party struggles. I mentioned about it in a previous article. This forum has also forced to be closed for a long time now.
During the one week long October holiday of 2001, Internet friends decided to organize an inter- provincial gathering. The people would be from provinces and cities like Jiangsu, Shanghai, Anhui, Guangdong and Liaoning. It was a pity the friends from Beijing could not attend it. To memorize this event, I wrote a report entitled "The first general convention of Freedom Party is held in Nanjing City" as a kidding (In fact, this is a duplicate of the document of first general convention of Chinese Communist Party). I posted my "report" on the confidential forum of Xici. This report was cancelled soon afterwards by the website manager. At that time I complained of the over sensitivity and coward of the manager. However, I started to understand how sensitive CCP was to party organization one year later when I was on pre-trial. During the trail, I had to explain it was just a kidding.
Half a year later after this gathering, the discussion on confidential forum waned. "Freedom and Freedom" forum was opened but closed again and again. So we could imagine how big the pressure it was facing in China. I wrote some articles and knew some friends during this period. Besides on democracy forum, I also posted articles on other forums, such as "Problems and Doctrines" (renamed as "Learn and Mediate" and "No sleep", respectively, later). My ID "Stainless Steel Mouse" also became prominent, and I served as the manager of "Democracy" and "Learn and Mediate" forums for a while. The weeklong holiday in May of 2002 was on the corner soon. The forum friends planned to throw a gathering again. However, we ran into trouble this time. Just before the May Day, several active friends in Xici and democracy forums were called upon by secret police, so the gathering had to be cancelled. As said by a friend "interviewed" by police, some of my articles have attracted the attention of secret police, so they were especially interested to extract message about me and several other friends in northern China. Now some friends criticized that one people made up information about me to cheat secret police. For example, he claimed that I was over 40 or 50 years old or even older, and I used to be labeled as a "rightist". However, I understand his motive was to protect me. Maybe he seemed to be a bit irresponsible, or even a bit ridiculous, but he did not mean to hurt me. I should be grateful to him. I believe friends should not criticize him.
I was scared to death when I learnt that. I kept silent for a while. However, I felt this was ridiculous after a while. So I wrote three-step self-autobiography "The self picturing of Stainless Steel Mouse". With the formats of playwright, movie and novel, I depicted the ridiculousness of these whole events and shed lights on my true ideas. I started to write articles and post them on Internet again. Then on September of 2002, after the centennial celebration of Beijing Normal University, the faculty in charge of student affairs in Physiology Department called upon me. He claimed that I have been posting some very bad articles on Internet. The Chinese Security Department officials have contacted the university agency for several times about it. And moreover, I had the idea of organizing a party with political agenda. I was also a member of an illegal organization. He warned me not to write these articles any more in the future. At that moment I knew "The real wolf does come at last". Since then, besides an article about loose weight, I did not write anything, even did not follow up the articles of others. Then on November 7, 2002, police agency of Beijing City detained me.
Part 2
On November 28, 2003, I was bailed out and put under home arrest. I realized so many things have happened during my one-year's detention, such as "Hu and Wen new politics", SARS and Doctor Yanyong Jiang, and events of Wenli Xu, Bingzhang Wang and Jue Fang. What moved me most deeply was the rising "Safeguarding rights movement" on Internet. I was especially moved by the attention, appeal and support from friends, from all news media and from Human Rights Organizations. I am so grateful to all those participating. Some friends like Daobin Du, Yongzhong Luo and Changfu Lou are paying such high price for it. I felt unspeakable sorrow for them. I am also very pitiful for those who are responsible for this tragedy. I also knew the cases of Zhigang Sun, Dawu Sun and Enchong Zheng. Among all these cases, the voices on Internet have been showing their flag, and thus becoming an important pushing force.
Another event, thought not so visible, also attracted my attention. This is the regular gatherings of Internet friends in various cities---Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Wuhan, to name just a few. In many cases, there is an online beforehand notice like this, "Please extend this notice to comrades in other provinces. The responsible officials are all welcome to supervise, self-responsible for expenses". I knew the last sentence is not kidding. It demonstrates the difficulty in throwing these gatherings before. However, these gatherings are held everywhere in China. The friends in Beijing even have fixed time, place and agendas, as well as fixed "Bylaws for meetings". All these remind me the hard work and setbacks we suffered in democracy forum previously---partially due to the heavy pressure from government, partially due to waning vigor and our errors in strategy. The inter-provincial gatherings and confidential forum discussions failed, but "Democracy and Freedom" survived, and is increasingly influential. At the same time, Internet friends are holding more and more gatherings and meetings now.
Now I take the liberty to reflect and mediate my "adventure on the internet": What can Internet bring to us? Let's come back to the prior topic, some friends regard the Internet community as too fictitious and too loose, so they hope to create a close organization to fulfill the agendas. I was opposed to this idea from the very beginning, and I am still opposed to this idea now. From the point of economics, all forms of organizations, including government, enterprises and NGOs are created to reduce the transaction costs, so as to stimulate social and economic progress. One of the necessary conditions to achieve this cost efficiency is the free movement of information, which is the functions of newspapers, broadcasts, TVs and Internets. Are "originations" surely more cost efficient than Internets and medias? Not necessary. From my case, the contrary conclusion showed up. Yesterday (January 15, 2004), the police station close to my home knew that I was released on home arrest from my own mouth. However, on that day of December 25, 2003, when I was released of home arrest, several news media called me for interviews. Moreover, my case demonstrates the splitting status of this government. Some members of this group do not know what others are doing. Their words, behaviors and totally self-conflict which is full of inner wasting and uncertainty. On the contrary, though not perfect, the Internet friends have setup effective approaches in communicating, throwing parties, collecting signatures and calling for donations. Our work is more transparent and more democratic. Internet has replaced the functions of "organization" in many respects, which stimulate the integrity of Chinese society, and provides the space for the nurture of citizenship society in China. Some people have discussed that widespread use of TV and the cost saving in communication associated with TV led to the disintegration of former Soviet Union. Nowadays, the Internet is playing a similar role in simulating the progress of China.
I want to give an advice to friends after being released now: We can throw parties in China now, but cannot organize parties with political agendas. Many Chinese think this English word "party" has several meanings. However, all these meanings are quite similar as a fact. I believe compared to the "parties" thrown today, what Zili Yang did in the past was not a big deal. The Chinese government is adapting to the new situation. For example, we all know how sensitive this term "Human Rights" used to be in China. However, this term has been written into Constitution now. Another example is the communication freedom in Internet and the freedom for Internet friends to meet; this freedom is gained by hard struggles. The more we speak, the more we do, the Chinese government will be more tolerant, thus safer we are.
Publishing date: 01/16/2004.
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Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition News and Article Release Issue: A50-M9
中国民主运动海外联席会议新闻与文章发布号：A50-M9
Release Date: January 28, 2004
发布日：2004年1月28日
Topic: Adventure of "Stainless Steel Mouse" on the Internet (Liu Di)
标题：不銹鋼老鼠上網記 (劉荻)
此号以中文为准（英文在前，中文在后）
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劉荻：不銹鋼老鼠上網記 (2004.1.16)
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我開始上網是在2000年初，起初是在幾個大學的BBS混，後來混到了網易社區和其他幾個地方。這段時間我只是潛水看貼，從不發言。2000年夏天我接觸到了李永剛老師辦的"思想的境界"，當時它的論壇設在"西祠胡同"裏的"社會與人文"下面，所以我便又混到了西祠，並且發現了那裏的"民主論壇"（後改名為"民主和人權"），這就是現在的"民主和自由"論壇的前身。我在西祠上註冊了"不銹鋼老鼠"這個ID，主要是為了看貼方便，我依然很少發言。隨後發生的事情有"思想的境界"被關閉，這件事還頗引起了一些風波。好幾個地方出現了"盜版"的思想網，供網友們下載原來思想網上的好文章之用。西祠的"思想的境界"論壇也一直保留了下來，只是再沒有往日的紅火。最近我在一本正式出版物中讀到了作者引用李永剛兄對網路民主的觀點，感慨頗多。
接下來是2001年春夏之交，離某個重要的紀念日還有一兩個月，網路上的不安與躁動已經開始，這時卻傳來"羊子的思想家園"站長楊子立等四人被捕的消息。"羊子的思想家園"是我常去的網站，在我學會用代理流覽海外的"反動"網站之後，還常常在她那裏尋找可用的代理，所以我對楊子立的被捕感到特別震驚。而且隨著紀念日的日趨臨近，西祠網友的情緒日趨激動，"風聲"也日趨緊張。比"民主論壇"激烈得多的"自由主義論壇"中存放了大量關於這個紀念日的文章，直到罎子被西祠站方關掉；幾個大膽的網友被封ID；這時關於網特的傳言也越來越多。這些促使我做出了一個決定，借用王小波的一句話：吾輩從今天開始說話。如果現在我不說話，以後可能就沒人能夠說話了。這是我發言的開始。
終於進入6月了，西祠站方宣佈，6月1日至7日，西祠因技術原因休站7天。 說是技術原因休站，但是網站的伺服器一直開著，網友們仍然可以以各種方式"挖地道"進入胡同。到了紀念日當天，網友們都發現自己的嘴巴被封上：無法在論壇發言了。這時又有網友迅速開發出替代程式，解放了的網友紛紛發出感慨：原來嘴巴被封住的滋味是這樣的！我的一篇紀念文章也得以發出。
西祠的"技術性休站"休了大約有一個月。這期間據說被南京某報（西祠的伺服器在南京）批判"名義上服從領導決定休站，實際上留有多個入口供反動分子進入。"這樣直到有一天，西祠關閉"民主和人權"等多個時事政治類討論版，另有一批討論版被降級為秘密版。
民版的老網友們不甘寂寞，另外找伺服器做了一個介面跟西祠很像的"煙雨社區"。煙雨的優點是任何人都可以建討論版，因此我也開了自己的文學類討論版"發條橘子"。儘管如此，煙雨上新建的"民主與自由"版，卻是整個社區當之無愧的"老大"：民版占了煙雨的絕大部分的空間。與此同時，民版網友也不滿足於僅僅上網發發帖子了，我們想利用自己的力量做點實事了。煙雨是西祠的簡易版，有很多不足之處，比如不能開秘密版，沒有聊天室等等。於是我們回到西祠開設了一個秘密版--版的名字很不引人注目，叫做"好朋友一起來玩"，由於版號是71138，於是我們又管它叫71138版--目的是討論我們能為中國的進步做點什麼。我們決定每週五晚上8點在秘密版的聊天室裏開會討論。我不知道最早的網路會議是不是從我們開始。過了很長一段時間，我們的網路會議早已停止以後，一位網友寫了一篇《光著身子開會》，意即在網路聊天室裏，不必西裝革履，甚至可以什麼都不穿地開會，回憶這一段日子。大約兩年以後，我坐在看守所裏，看著電視新聞裏新政府要反腐敗，改革會議方式，改用網上會議，我也回想起了當時在聊天室裏開會的日子。
討論中有些朋友不滿足于網路社區組織的虛擬和鬆散，想要走下網路，成立更加嚴密的組織。我寫了一篇文章對此提出反對意見：我不反對走下網路，但是我反對成立任何形式的嚴密組織，原因是新青年學會的前車之鑒。我所希望的就是像版名一樣"好朋友一起來玩"，大家以網路為平臺彼此交流、相互支持，以在異化和疏離的世界中獲得歸屬感。在這個思想的指導下，我和北京的網友們搞了幾次聚會："組織大家去爬山看電影"，這是一位網友的話。
一次討論中，有網友找來了2000年6月被捕的"天網"黃琦的妻子曾麗。大家討論如何能幫助黃琦，最後的結果是我們捐了一些錢給曾麗，因為她的生活很困難。就是這時候我寫了《柿油派網蟲集體向黨和政府投誠》。這個帖子是一位網友的主意。我們還討論了其他一些主意，但是都沒有結果。
煙雨論壇只存活了短短的兩個多月就被關閉了，從此"民主與自由"便走上了在三十多個論壇上流浪的道路。而西祠的秘密版卻一直存在到今天，只是再沒有人氣。與此同時，民版的朋友還在西祠上開了另一個秘密版："人民日報FANS俱樂部"，後來改名叫"人民日報讀報小組"。版內經常滑稽模仿"我黨"搞一些黨內鬥爭，搞點政治無厘頭逗大家笑。我也在一些文章中提到過它。這個版也早已被關閉。
2001年十一旅遊黃金周期間，民版的網友們決定在南京搞一次跨省的大聚會，參加聚會的網友來自江蘇、上海、安徽、廣東、遼寧等省市。讓我覺得比較遺憾的是沒有北京網友參加。出於開玩笑的目的我寫了一篇《西祠柿油黨第一次全國代表大會在南京召開》的"報導"（其實就是把中共一大的文告拿來改頭換面），貼在西祠的秘密版裏。這個"報導"沒過多長時間便被斑竹刪掉。當時我還抱怨斑竹"過敏"，誰知一年多以後當我面對預審的時候，當問到"西祠柿油黨"是怎麼回事時，我只好努力解釋那只是一個玩笑。由此可見他們對"組黨"的敏感程度。
此後的半年裏，秘密版的討論逐漸冷下去，"民主與自由"關了又開，遇到的壓力之大可想而知。在這段時間我寫了一些文章，認識了一些網友；除了民版以外，我還在其他一些論壇上發言，如問題與主義（後改名為學而思）、不寐論壇等；"不銹鋼老鼠"也從一個名不見經傳的小ID變成了"著名網友"，還當了一段時間民版和學而思的斑竹。2002年五一的旅遊黃金周又快到了，民版的老朋友們又想組織一次聚會，這次我們可遇到麻煩了！五一之前，多名積極組織聚會的網友、及西祠和民版的著名網友被江蘇當地國安傳訊，聚會被迫取消。據被傳訊過的網友說，我寫的一些文章引起了國安的注意，我和幾位北方網友是他們詢問的重點。現在有人指責當時的一位網友被傳訊時"向國安提供了很多關於老鼠的不實之詞"，我要鄭重聲明的是，事情是這樣的：這位網友確實對國安說過諸如我年齡有四五十歲或者更大、以前當過右派等等"不實之詞"，但他的動機是為了保護我；他此舉也許有些不負責任，但是並沒有惡意，相反我是應該感謝他的。我認為他不應該因此而受到網友們的指責。
聽說這件事之後我被嚇壞了，有一段時間沒有發過帖子。可時間長了，又感到這件事的可笑。我寫了"三部曲"的《不銹鋼老鼠的自白書》，分別引用話劇、電影和小說作題目，來表達這件事的荒謬和解釋我心中的真實想法。我又開始在網上發帖子。直到2002年9月，北師大百年校慶剛過，心理系負責學生工作的老師找我談話，說我在互聯網上發表過一些非常反動的文章，上邊幾次找到學校，還說我有組黨的想法，是一個非法組織的重要成員等等，警告我以後不要再發那些過分的文章。當時我知道"狼"真的來了。從那之後，除了一篇關於減肥的文章以外，我沒有在網上發過任何帖子，連跟貼也很少，直到2002年11月7日，我被北京市公安局刑事拘留。
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2003年11月28日，我"取保候審"回到家中。我發現在我被羈押的一年多裏發生了許多事：不必說"胡溫新政"，不必說SARS與蔣彥永醫生，也不必說徐文立、王炳章、方覺，最讓我感動的是網路上風起雲湧的"維權運動"，包括廣大網友們和各新聞媒體、人權組織對我的關注、聲援和幫助，我非常非常感謝大家。也有一些網友如杜導斌、羅永忠、羅長福等人為此付出了沉重代價，對此我感到了難以言說的痛苦，我也對那些要為此事負責的人感到非常遺憾。除此之外還有孫志剛案、孫大午案、鄭恩寵案等等，在這些民間維權的個案中，網路的聲音已經浮出水面，成為一股不容忽視的社會力量。
還有一件事不那麼起眼，卻引起了我的重視：關天網友在各個城市的定期聚會。北京、上海、廣州、武漢，各地的網友都在聚會，在各個思想網站上發的"聚會通知"上往往有這麼一句話："此條傳抄兄弟省市：歡迎有關部門光臨指導、費用自理。"我知道那後一句話並非空穴來風，也聽說了以往這種聚會所遇到的種種阻力，但是現在這些聚會已經在全國遍地開花，北京網友的聚會已經有個固定的時間、固定的地點，形成了固定的程式，也有了"議事規則"。這些使我想起了當初民版幾乎同樣的努力與嘗試所遇到的挫折，部分是由於強大的壓力，部分是由於熱情的逐漸消退和我們自己策略上的失誤。跨省市的聚會和秘密版的討論失敗了，但是"民主與自由"艱難地存活了下來，並且有了越來越大的影響力。與此同時"網友聚會"這種形式卻蓬勃發展了起來。
現在談談我對自己的"網路歷險記"的反思和總結：網路能給我們帶來什麼。再回到以前的話題：有朋友認為網路社區太過於虛擬、太過於鬆散，希望成立更加嚴密的組織來做事。當時我對此表示反對。現在我仍然認為我的觀點是正確的。從經濟學上來看，一切形式的組織，包括政府、企業和NGO，都是為了降低交易成本、從而加速經濟和社會發展而存在的。而降低交易成本的必要條件之一便是資訊溝通，這便是包括報紙、廣播、電視和互聯網在內的傳媒的功能。那麼"組織"真的就比媒體和網路更能有效地溝通資訊、降低交易成本嗎？不一定，從我的案件來看，結論很可能是恰恰相反：昨天，2004年1月15日，我家附近的派出所才剛剛從我口中得知，我的取保候審已於2003年12月25日解除；而與此形成鮮明對照的是，去年12月25日我解除取保候審的當天，媒體便已經打電話來採訪了。此外，我的案情中能夠體現出：後極權主義的精神分裂已到極點，某集團中的一部分人不知道另一部分人在做什麼，他們說的話、採取的行動是分裂的、自相矛盾的，內耗和不確定性極大。而比較之下，線民們無論是在溝通資訊、組織聚會，還是在發起、組織簽名、募捐等行動上，也許還有很多缺點和不足，但是已經形成了一整套的模式，運作起來更加迅捷.我們的資訊溝通更加快捷，工作更加透明，組織結構更加民主，因此大家的積極性也更高。互聯網已經在某種程度上代替了"組織"的作用，互聯網促進了中國社會的整合，互聯網給中國備受壓抑的公民社會以發育的空間。有人曾經論述過由於電視的普及導致的交易成本降低，造成了蘇聯的解體。現在，互聯網也正是這麼促進中國一個發展進步的契機。
這次出來以後，我曾跟朋友說過一句話：現在是開PARTY可以，組黨不行。可是想起來，很多國人以為這個英文詞是一個多義詞，殊不知在原文裏這二者並無多大區別。我又想起關天的PARTY，想起要是在今天，楊子立他們的"學會"也許不算什麼。當局現在對很多東西是處於逐漸脫敏的狀態，比如"人權"，我們都記得人權曾經是一個多麼敏感的詞，可現在人權已經被寫入憲法了；再比如網路言論自由和網友聚會，我們現在在互聯網上的言論空間是大家努力爭取來的，我們說得越多，做得越多，當局就會越習慣於這種做法，我們大家就都越安全。
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