那些描绘恐怖的社会制度的“发人深省”的小说，并不是凭空而来的。我说的刻薄一些，这些所谓的“恐怖”小说其实不过是把被压迫的人的生活搬到了那些更“普通”的人的身上。
在这些小说假想的末世灾难里，所有人都要被迫搬离家园流浪到别的地方，而不仅仅只是那些欠发达地区的人需要为了生计而移民；所有人都没有了生育与不生育的自由，而不仅仅只是少数族裔、性少数、穷苦的人被剥夺选择的权利...
往好里说，这些小说让我们更深刻地体会到了社会中被压迫群体的生活。往坏里说，这些小说让社会中被压迫群体的生活和科幻想象等同了起来，从而更难让人去倾听真正经历苦难的人的声音了。
这也就是为什么我拒绝在我的小说里描绘想象中的末世。因为我不愿意用想象去替代我们社会中受苦最为深重的人的经历和现实。 source
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I have no inside knowledge of a potential stock listing of the popular anti-Whatsapp messaging app, Telegram. But I know this much, judging by most people I talk to, especially crypto investors, if Telegram ever went public, people would gobble it up. I know I would. I’m waiting for it. So is Sergei Sergienko, who claims he owns $800,000 of Telegram’s pre-initial coin offering (ICO) tokens. “If Telegram does a SPAC IPO, there would be demand for this issue. It would probably outstrip the interest we saw during the ICO. Why? Because as of right now Telegram looks like a liberal application that can accept anyone - right after WhatsApp and others have turn on the censorship,” he says.
Since the violent storming of Capitol Hill and subsequent ban of former U.S. President Donald Trump from Facebook and Twitter, the removal of Parler from Amazon’s servers, and the de-platforming of incendiary right-wing content, messaging services Telegram and Signal have seen a deluge of new users. In January alone, Telegram reported 90 million new accounts. Its founder, Pavel Durov, described this as “the largest digital migration in human history.” Signal reportedly doubled its user base to 40 million people and became the most downloaded app in 70 countries. The two services rely on encryption to protect the privacy of user communication, which has made them popular with protesters seeking to conceal their identities against repressive governments in places like Belarus, Hong Kong, and Iran. But the same encryption technology has also made them a favored communication tool for criminals and terrorist groups, including al Qaeda and the Islamic State.
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