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In the early days of Twitter, it was like a place of radical de-shaming.
Twitter剛出不久時(shí)，像是個(gè)奇葩類的供洗恥的地方。
People would admit shameful secrets about themselves, and other people would say, "Oh my God, I'm exactly the same."
人們會(huì)直諱一些羞于啟齒的秘密，其他人就會(huì)搭腔說(shuō)，“天啊，我跟你一模一樣。”
Voiceless people realized that they had a voice, and it was powerful and eloquent.
欲言無(wú)處訴的人意識(shí)到自己有話語(yǔ)權(quán)了，而且還能聲勢(shì)浩大、振振有詞。
If a newspaper ran some racist or homophobic column, we realized we could do something about it.
遇到哪份報(bào)張發(fā)表了種族歧視或反同性戀的言論時(shí)，我們就知道可以采取行動(dòng)了。
We could get them. We could hit them with a weapon that we understood but they didn't -- a social media shaming.
我們能把他們揪出來(lái)。我們可以用炮轟他們，用他們覺(jué)得陌生而我們得心應(yīng)手的武器，叫社交媒體羞辱法。
Advertisers would withdraw their advertising.
廣告商就會(huì)撤回廣告。
When powerful people misused their privilege, we were going to get them.
遇到有權(quán)有勢(shì)之士濫用特權(quán)的時(shí)候，我們就可以把他們給揪出來(lái)。
This was like the democratization of justice.
簡(jiǎn)直就像司法的民主化。
Hierarchies were being leveled out. We were going to do things better.
階層差異被推平了。很多事情我們都可以做得更好了。
Soon after that, a disgraced pop science writer called Jonah Lehrer
那之后不久，一位名叫喬納·雷爾的知名科學(xué)作家，做了件丟人的事，
he'd been caught plagiarizing and faking quotes, and he was drenched in shame and regret, he told me.
抄襲和捏造引據(jù)，并因之深陷羞辱和悔恨，他對(duì)我說(shuō)。
And he had the opportunity to publicly apologize at a foundation lunch.
他得到一個(gè)機(jī)會(huì)可以在一次基金午餐會(huì)上公開(kāi)道歉。
This was going to be the most important speech of his life.
那將會(huì)是他生命中最重要的一次講話的了。
Maybe it would win him some salvation.
可能會(huì)為他挽回一點(diǎn)顏面。
He knew before he arrived that the foundation was going to be live-streaming his event,
出席之前他知道，該基金會(huì)將要流媒體直播他的講話，
but what he didn't know until he turned up, was that they'd erected a giant screen Twitter feed right next to his head.
但他沒(méi)有料到的是，到了會(huì)場(chǎng)之后才發(fā)現(xiàn)現(xiàn)場(chǎng)豎起了一個(gè)巨大的推特?zé)善?，就挨他的頭旁邊。
Another one in a monitor screen in his eye line.
另一個(gè)電腦熒屏則在他的視線之內(nèi)。
