据称柏拉图曾有一句名言，讲述社会因对政治漠不关心而付出的代价：“拒绝参与政治的代价之一，就是你最终会被比你更差的人统治。”我们已经走到了这一步——远远超出了“被比自己更差的人统治”的阶段。我们正被一个野心勃勃的独裁者、他那由阿谀奉承者组成的冷酷内阁以及一帮寡头所统治。
There is a famous saying attributed to Plato about the price society pays for treating politics with indifference: “One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”Here we are — way past the “being governed by our inferiors” stage of things. We are being governed by a would-be autocrat, his ruthless Cabinet of sycophants and a cabal of oligarchs.
唐纳德·特朗普已派遣戴面具的移民与海关执法人员进入美国社区，他们从街头抓走我们的邻居，并向抗议者和车辆开火。他正针对自己最直言不讳的批评者进行调查、起诉、逮捕和骚扰。但特朗普及其同伙并不比你更强大，而现在的参与不仅仅意味着投票——它意味着 。
Donald Trump has sent masked ICE forces into American neighborhoods, where they snatch our neighbors off the streets and fire at protesters and into vehicles. He’s targeting his most vocal critics for investigation indictment arrest and harassment But Trump and his accomplices aren’t stronger than you are, and participating now means more than simply voting — it means . On Tuesday, a judge indefinitely blocked the president’s press ban.
周二，一名法官无限期阻止了总统的新闻禁令。过去一个月来，特朗普试图将三家新闻网络——MS NOW、CNN和《政客》——排除在白宫之外，仅仅因为他不喜欢它们发布的报道。不出所料，白宫发言人已表示将对法官的裁决提出上诉。
For the last month, Trump has tried to block three news networks — MS NOW, CNN and Politico — from the White House simply because he does not like the stories they publish. Expectedly, a White House spokesperson has already said they will appeal the judge’s ruling. Trump is following an established roadmap: an allegedly anti-establishment outsider takes advantage of a right-wing populist movement and is elected president in 2016.
特朗普正遵循一条既定路线图：一个自称反建制的局外人利用右翼民粹主义运动，于2016年当选总统。没错，特朗普正是如此上台，但这也是罗德里戈·杜特尔特在菲律宾当选的方式。
Yes, that’s how Trump came to power, but it’s also how Rodrigo Duterte was elected in the Philippines. Duterte was a brutal leader who presided over what he called a “war on drugs.”
杜特尔特是一位残暴的领导人，他推行了所谓的“禁毒战争”。但实际上，这不过是政府支持的私刑者们在菲律宾街头公然实施暴力谋杀的借口。这些谋杀行为被称为“法外处决”。直到今天，仍没有人能准确统计出在他执政期间究竟发生了多少起“法外处决”。有人估计死亡人数高达3万人。尽管如此，那些敢于揭露真相的菲律宾记者依然坚持不懈地报道这些事件，却因此遭到了杜特尔特政府的严厉惩罚。
But in reality, it was a justification for government-linked vigilantes to openly carry out savage murders in the streets of the Philippines. Those murders became known as “extrajudicial killings.”And to this day, nobody knows exactly how many “extrajudicial killings” took place under his leadership. Some estimate the death toll to be as high as 30,000 Regardless, Filipino journalists with spines of steel pursued the story relentlessly, and the Duterte administration punished them for it. Many reporters and outlets were targeted, but few felt Duterte’s wrath worse than Maria Ressa, the founder of the digital news site Rappler. Rappler was a fearless critic of the government.
许多记者和媒体机构都成了攻击的目标，但其中最受杜特尔特迫害的，当属数字新闻网站Rappler的创始人玛丽亚·雷萨（Maria Ressa）。
Its journalists wrote many stories laying out the truth about Duterte’s so-called war on drugs and the widespread corruption that happened during his administration.
Rappler一直是政府无畏的批评者。其记者们揭露了许多真相：关于杜特尔特的“禁毒战争”，以及他在执政期间普遍存在的腐败现象。
In response, the government retaliated against Rappler — many times. In 2018, one of its reporters was once barred, without warning, from entering the grounds of the presidential palace, the Philippines’ equivalent to the White House.
作为回应，政府多次对Rappler进行报复。2018年，该网站的一名记者被突然禁止进入总统府（菲律宾的“白宫”）。在2017年的一次全国电视直播的国情演讲中，杜特尔特指责Rappler是外国所有的；在后续声明中，他甚至称“Rappler的新闻内容是虚假的，而且它所谓的‘菲律宾性质’也是虚假的”。政府还成立特别工作组，指控该网站与共产党有关联，企图将其关闭；该网站的运营许可证也曾被吊销。
During a nationally televised State of the Nation address in 2017, Duterte accused Rappler of being foreign-owned. In a follow-up statement, he added“Not only is Rappler’s news fake, it being Filipino is also fake.”A government task force accused it of being associated with communists as part of an effort to shut it down, and the outlet even had its license revoked at one point. Ressa herself was targeted.
玛丽亚·雷萨本人也成为了攻击的目标。2018年11月，她被指控犯有包括逃税在内的多项税务罪行。几个月后，她根据杜特尔特政府常用的反网络犯罪法律被逮捕。虽然法院判她有罪，但她的案件仍在上诉中。
In November 2018, she was charged with a series of tax-related crimes, including tax evasion. A few months later, she was arrested and charged under an anti-cybercrimes law that the Duterte administration widely used to go after journalists and other critics. A court found her guilty, but the case remains under appeal. Nobel Peace Prize-winner Maria Ressa on fighting authoritarianism in the age of A.I.
这位诺贝尔和平奖得主玛丽亚·雷萨，一直在为反对人工智能时代下的专制主义而奋斗。
October 14, 2026 Despite all of those attacks, Ressa showed the world how to stand up to a dictator.
2026年10月14日 尽管遭受了所有这些攻击，雷萨仍向世界展示了如何对抗独裁者。她多年来一直被当作罪犯对待，却从未动摇过捍卫自身权利和新闻自由权利的决心。
She endured years of being treated as a criminal and never wavered from defending her rights and those of the free press. All of the tax-related charges against her have since been dropped Rappler’s license was also restored by the court, and it remains a top news site in the country.
针对她的所有税务指控均已撤销，Rappler的执照也已由法院恢复，该网站仍是该国顶尖新闻网站之一。
In 2021, Ressa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work.
2021年，雷萨因其工作荣获诺贝尔和平奖。与此同时，杜特尔特正在海牙等待审判，去年他被国际刑事法院逮捕并指控犯有危害人类罪。
Meanwhile, Duterte is awaiting trial at The Hague after he was arrested and charged by the International Criminal Court with crimes against humanity last year. In Ressa’s new book, “The Fight Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Standing Up to Dictators,” she offers Americans a blueprint for confronting an autocratic leader — and defending democracy before it’s too late.
在雷萨的新书《反击：公民对抗独裁者指南》中，她为美国人提供了一份面对专制领导人、并在为时过晚之前捍卫民主的蓝图。
“Courage isn’t the absence of fear; it’s the decision that something matters more,” she wrote.
“勇气不是没有恐惧，而是决定有比恐惧更重要的事情，”她写道。“这是反击的第一步。”
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