「Die豹事件」被譯成英文

2008-06-05 16:40:53 来自: 倉海君

東南西北網的宋以朗先生已把此事譯成英文，國外傳媒也會得悉此事，至於最後能否真正幫到Die豹，也只好聽天由命了。

http://zonaeuropa.com/200806a.brief.htm#013

* The DieBao Affair (06/05/2008) (Pandemonium; Douban)

On the afternoon of May 12, 2008 shortly after the Sichuan earthquake occurred a netizen named 'DieBao' posted her thoughts to the Southern Weekend group at Douban.com. This was her first experience of an earthquake, and she was elated. She hoped that the earthquake could happen again even more powerfully. She few that five people died at a certain middle school and she thought that not enough people had died compared to the tsunami in Indonesia. After the true extent of the earthquake became known, netizens went from sharing her sentiments to attacking her and she made repeated explanations.

On May 15, a new Douban.com group named "No longer interested in the Wenchuan earthquake" was founded for the purpose of discussing the government actions after the earthquake. This was located by the "sock puppet gang" of the "Douban loving hearts group" which called for its member to join the group and attack its leader. DieBao joined the group to defend the leader's right to reflect and thus clashed with the "sock puppet gang." The next day, the group was disbanded by the Douban administrator.

On May 16, DieBao expressed her discontent with the "sock puppet gang" at a friend's group. The "sock puppet gang" found out and rushed in to attack DieBao and the group leader. In order to calm things down, DieBao opened up a new group named "The sock puppet gang is drowning DieBao with their saliva." So the "sock puppet gang" moved to that group to continue their assault.

On early moring on May 17, Diebao issued a letter of apology to the "sock puppet gang." But the "sock puppet gang" did not consider her to be sincere, and continued their assault. In the afternoon, DieBao deleted all comments and dissolved the group (note: Douban requires the removal of all comments, users and posts before a group can be dissolved).

This was the stage in which the two sides clashed directly. During this stage, both sides used verbal violence. The "sock puppet gang" even used DieBao's childhood fears to attack her.

On the evening of May 16, the "sock puppet gang" threatened Diebao twice about mobilizing human flesh search engines. Its members posed a call for human flesh search engines at the "Wenchuan needs your help group!" and got no response. So the they went instead to post at Tianya and MOP forums with a title <Please start a human flesh search engine, we strongly condemn this immoral Chinese person with no conscience>. The post contained excerpts from what DieBao originally wrote. They also posted to the comments section in order to generate more interest. However, there was no response.

On the evening of May 17, the "sock puppet gang" made better preparations and posted to Tianya and the Baidu Post Bar group for the school in which DieBao resides. The title was <I wanted the earthquake to be even more powerful!>. The posts contains certain screen captures that had been pieced together by PhotoShop; they located photos of her from her personal blog; they obtained personal information about DieBao from her school user account. This time, it worked.

At the Baidu Post Bar, the "sock puppet gang" continued to apply pressure by attacking DieBao's teachers, asking them to pay attention to her political attitude and her "totally immoral" and "completely reactionary" position.

DieBao said that her school received complaint calls and even her mother was harassed on the phone.

On May 20, Diebao's advisor made a recommendation for her to go leave for a year because "you may encounter trouble ... you are a girl ... the school may expel you if the the school gets in trouble." At 10:30am, arrangements were completed for her to go on leave. That evening, DieBao apologized to the netizens.

I believe that this affair is one in which the "sock puppet gang" claimed "(Chinese-style) political correctness" and "human morality" and made use of DieBao's unfortunate speech to instigate uninformed netizens to attack Diebao to vent their personal anger at her over the previous encounter. The "sock puppet gang" may not have expected the outcome.

I understand that the most active "sock puppet gang" members are corporate white-collar workers, teachers, newspaper editors as well as some recent university graduates or current students. Interestingly enough, they labelled themselves as "artistic young people" and some are even well-known. Their actions under the cover of their "sock puppet ID's" do not match the respect that they receive in real life.

Some netizens say that DieBao made a mistake first by being careless with her wrods and this gave the cause to the "sock puppet gang." I agree. But the Chinese people always tend to blame the weak. If you are robbed, you will be told "Why didn't you keep it safely?" If you are sexually harassed, you will be told "Why don't you wear more clothes?"

I would rather condemn the robbers, because this means that we don't have to be so anxious out in the street. I would rather condemn the sexual harassers, because we can get more than an eyeful. I would rather condemn the "sock puppet gang, because we can be frank and sincere without being too concerned about what we say. At this moment, we need a compatriot more than an enemy. Nobody is born without a conscience. To be labelled as "traitor" because of a slip of the tongue is a form of internecine battle, right?

Perhaps this will also help us to build a society in which we want to live sooner.