Name: 這就是數字政變的模樣 | Carole Cadwalladr | TED (This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED)
Uploaded: 2025-04-11T17:02:12.000Z
Duration: 17 min 42 s

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I have been feeling a lot of panic and fear about this talk and not just for the normal reasons of public speaking, although that's fair, too.

對於這次演講，我一直感到非常恐慌和害怕，這並不只是因為在公眾面前演講的正常原因，雖然這也很正常。

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But it's also because I want to say something meaningful, and I've been overwhelmed by the enormity of what is happening right now.

但這也是因為我想說點有意義的話，而現在發生的一切讓我不知所措。

And there's a particular set of circumstances which have also been feeding into my confusion and denial.

還有一系列特殊的情況也一直在助長我的困惑和否認。

And that is because the last time that I stood on this stage, it led to a three-year legal battle, culminated in London's High Court, in which it felt like I was on trial for my life, because I was.

這是因為我上一次站在這個舞臺上，導致了一場長達三年的法律戰，最終在倫敦高等法院打贏了官司，在這場官司中，我感覺自己是在為自己的生命受審，因為我確實是在受審。

My career, my reputation, my finances, even my home was on the line.

我的事業、名譽、財務，甚至我的家都岌岌可危。

All because I came here to warn you that I didn't think democracy was going to survive the technology that you're building, however incredible it is.

這一切都是因為我來到這裡警告你們，我認為你們正在建造的技術，無論多麼不可思議，民主都無法生存下去。

In fact, I was the person who almost didn't survive, and pretty much everything I was warning about is now coming true.

事實上，我就是那個差點沒活下來的人，我警告過的幾乎所有事情現在都成真了。

I have a lot of emotions about coming here, and Ted also, I suspect, is feeling them, too.

對於來到這裡，我有很多感慨，我猜想泰德也有同樣的感受。

But what actually I finally realized yesterday is that the denial and the confusion that I've been feeling is maybe what you're feeling, too.

但實際上，我昨天終於意識到，我所感受到的否認和困惑，也許也是你們的感受。

I felt powerless for a really long time, so if that's what you're feeling, I get it.

我有很長一段時間感到無能為力，所以如果你有這種感覺，我理解。

In my case, I survived, and you will, too, but it's by learning how to fight back.

在我的案例中，我活了下來，你也會，但這是通過學習如何反擊。

This is my guide, and it has to start with naming it.

這是我的指南，它必須從命名開始。

I know you probably don't want to hear that, and especially here, but we can't fight it if we can't see it, and we can't see it if we don't name it.

我知道你們可能不想聽到這些，尤其是在這裡，但如果我們看不到它，我們就無法對抗它，如果我們不說出它的名字，我們就無法看到它。

The Russian and American presidents are now speaking the same words.

俄羅斯總統和美國總統現在說著同樣的話。

We are watching the collapse of the international order in real time, and this is just the start.

我們正在實時觀察國際秩序的崩潰，而這僅僅是個開始。

當它們停止移動時，就會凝固。

現在已經比我們想象的要晚了。

This image, some of you in this room might know these people.

這個畫面，在座的有些人可能認識這些人。

I call it tech bros in hostage situations.

我稱之為 "人質危機中的技術兄弟"。

He allows a business elite to make untold riches in exchange for absolute loyalty.

他允許商業精英以絕對的忠誠換取數不盡的財富。

Some people are calling this oligarchy, but it's actually bigger than that.

有人說這是寡頭政治，但實際上比寡頭政治更大。

These are global an alignment of interests that runs through Silicon Valley to what is now a coming autocracy.

這些都是貫穿硅谷的全球性利益一致，也是現在即將到來的專制。

It's a type of power that the world has never seen before.

這是一種世界上從未見過的力量。

You know, the first thing that Elon Musk did was to send his cyber troops into the US Treasury to get access to the data.

要知道，埃隆-馬斯克做的第一件事就是派他的網絡部隊進入美國財政部獲取數據。

That data is now feeding AIs that are choosing who to sack and who to replace.

現在，人工智能正在利用這些數據來選擇解僱誰、替換誰。

When we broke the Cambridge Analytica story about the harvesting 87 million people's Facebook data, people freaked out, rightly.

當我們爆出劍橋分析公司獲取 8700 萬人的 Facebook 數據時，人們理所當然地嚇壞了。

Which is why it's so important you start thinking about your private life.

這就是為什麼你必須開始考慮自己的私生活。

The oligarchy doesn't want you to have one.

This is the old headquarters of the East German secret police.

They kept detailed files on almost one in three of their citizens.

他們幾乎每三個公民中就有一個人的詳細檔案。

That is nothing compared to what Google has on every single one of us and hundreds of other companies.

這與谷歌對我們每個人和其他數百家公司的控制相比，簡直是小巫見大巫。

The entire business model of Silicon Valley is surveillance.

硅谷的整個商業模式就是監控。

It harvests our data in order to sell us stuff.

它收集我們的數據，向我們推銷產品。

We are already living inside the architecture of totalitarianism.

我們已經生活在極權主義的架構之中。

It may not have been deliberate, but we now have to start acting as if we live in East Germany and Instagram is the starseed.

這可能不是故意的，但我們現在必須開始行動起來，就好像我們生活在東德，Instagram 是星種。

So I actually learned this from somebody who I think of as one of the great philosophers of our age, Steve Bannon.

是以，我實際上是從一位我認為是我們這個時代最偉大的哲學家之一的史蒂夫-班農那裡學到這一點的。

But it's not politicians who have the power.

這也是他成為播客兄弟的原因。

But culture now is just what's next on your phone.

但現在的文化只是你手機上的下一個內容。

If you want to know what the first great AI apocalypse is, we're already living it.

如果你想知道第一次人工智能大啟示是什麼，我們已經生活在其中了。

And if you take one thing only away from this talk, it's politics is technology now.

如果你從這次談話中只得到一點啟發，那就是現在的政治就是技術。

And that's why everybody in this room, you can't look away.

這就是為什麼在座的各位都不能移開視線。

It's why your CEOs have been taken captive and paraded on TV like hostages.

這就是為什麼你們的首席執行官被俘虜，像人質一樣在電視上游街示眾。

So Trump, he calls the press the enemies of the people.

所以，特朗普稱媒體是人民的敵人。

And he probably doesn't even know that he's quoting Stalin.

他甚至可能不知道自己在引用斯大林的話。

所以，發生在我身上的事情就是一本劇本。

And it's now coming for all sorts of other people.

現在，它也會降臨到其他人身上。

It was actually a friend of this guy who came after me.

其實是這個人的一個朋友來找我的。

I'm not going to go super into the details.

But 2019, sorry, 19 press freedom organizations called the lawsuit against me a slap.

但 2019 年，對不起，19 個新聞自由組織稱針對我的訴訟是一記耳光。

That means it's a strategic litigation against public participation.

這意味著這是一場反對公眾參與的戰略性訴訟。

A really long winded way of saying it's using law as a weapon to shut people up, not just journalists, but other public people too.

這真是一種冗長的說法，它是在用法律作為武器讓人們閉嘴，不僅是記者，還有其他公眾人物。

I just wanted to tell you about one aspect of the litigation, which I found terrifying.

我只想告訴你訴訟的一個方面，我覺得這很可怕。

There's this quote, you may know it's Cardinal Rieschler.

有這樣一句話，你可能知道是紅衣主教雷施勒說的。

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them in which will hang him.

如果你給我最誠實的人親手寫的六行字，我一定會從中找出一些東西來絞死他。

In my case, the first forensic searches of my phone and laptop yielded 40,000 pieces of data.

在我的案例中，對我的手機和筆記本電腦進行的首次取證搜索得到了 40,000 條數據。

It was my messages, my emails, my voice memos, my personal life.

這是我的資訊、電子郵件、語音備忘錄，也是我的個人生活。

And the whole thing about this, the attack which came from me, was really personal.

而這件事，也就是來自我的攻擊，真的很私人。

Because the thing about this litigation is only one part of the playbook.

因為這場訴訟只是遊戲規則的一部分。

It was also this sort of massive online campaign of abuse, which is just day after day, after day, after day.

這也是一種大規模的網上謾罵運動，日復一日，日復一日。

Because my most unforgivable crime was reporting while female.

因為我最不可饒恕的罪行就是在女性時進行報道。

And I believe that this man came after me personally, not the Guardian and not Ted.

我相信這個人是衝著我個人來的，而不是《衛報》，也不是特德。

It was because I looked like the weakest link.

But he was wrong. 30,000 people rose up to support me.

但他錯了。3 萬人起來支持我。

They contributed almost a million pounds to a legal defense fund.

他們為一個法律辯護基金捐助了近一百萬英鎊。

Because they saw a bully trying to crush me, and they would not let it stand.

因為他們看到一個惡霸試圖壓垮我，他們不會讓它得逞。

And it always makes me emotional when I think about that.

每當想起這些，我總是感慨萬千。

I just heard somebody was saying, the camera person, I don't know where they are, contributed.

我聽到有人說，攝影師，我不知道他們在哪裡，有貢獻。

This whole talk is actually my gratitude towards everybody who did that.

這整場演講實際上是我對每個人的感激之情。