斯諾登開Twitter賬號 關注NSA引爆網絡
Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor, opened his Twitter account with a joke on Tuesday. “Can you hear me now?” he wrote, in a short message that electrified the social network.and made reference to his revelations about the agency’s spying on phone calls.
本週二，國家安全局(National Security Agency)前承包商僱員愛德華·J·斯諾登(Edward J. Snowden)在Twitter上開設賬戶，並開了個玩笑：“現在你能聽到我嗎？”這條引爆Twitter的簡短帖子調侃了國家安全局監聽電話的行動。
Mr. Snowden’s first words on his verified account were borrowed from an old television commercial for Verizon, in which an actor playing a technician tested the range of the company’s wireless network.
斯諾登用認證帳戶發出的第一句話，借用了威瑞森(Verizon)以前的一則電視廣告的臺詞。在那個廣告中，一名演員扮成技術人員，對公司的無線網絡覆蓋範圍進行了測試。
When Mr. Snowden disclosed the scope of N.S.A. surveillance and the role of American communications companies by leaking a trove of classified documents in 2013, the first revelation was a secret court order compelling Verizon to give the N.S.A. information on all telephone calls in its systems, which was published by The Guardian.
斯諾登在2013年泄露了大批機密文件，曝光了國家安全局的監控範圍以及美國通信公司在其中扮演的角色。首當其衝的是一條祕密的法庭令，它迫使威瑞森將其系統中的所有電話記錄提交給國家安全局。此事刊登在了《衛報》(The Guardian)上。
As word spread that Mr. Snowden’s account was genuine, and he racked up more than 160,000 followers in his first hour on the network, several users noted that he was following only one account: that of the N.S.A.
使用這個Twitter賬戶的是斯諾登本人的消息迅速傳開。他開通賬戶剛一個小時，關注者人數就突破了16萬。一些用戶發現，斯諾登只關注了一個帳戶：國家安全局。
Among those welcoming Mr. Snowden was Glenn Greenwald, the former Guardian journalist who revealed Verizon’s role in the N.S.A.’s bulk domestic phone records program after meeting the former contractor in Hong Kong and obtaining the documents.
不少人對斯諾登表示了歡迎，其中之一是前《衛報》記者格倫·格林沃爾德(Glenn Greenwald)。當年他在香港與斯諾登會面並拿到資料之後，向公衆揭露了威瑞森在國家安全局大規模監聽電話的計劃中起到的作用。
According to Dan Froomkin of The Intercept, Mr. Snowden was prodded to join Twitter by Neil deGrasse Tyson, the astrophysicist and television host, during an interview on his “Star Talk” radio show, “via robotic telepresence from Moscow,” where he has lived since winning temporary asylum in Russia in 2013.
美國新聞網站The Intercept的丹·弗魯姆金(Dan Froomkin)表示，斯諾登在Twitter上開賬戶是聽從了天體物理學家、電視節目主持人尼爾·德格拉斯·泰森(Neil deGrasse Tyson)的建議。當時他“從莫斯科通過機器人遠程連線”，在泰森的廣播節目《星語》(Star Talk)中接受採訪。自從2013年獲得俄羅斯臨時庇護之後，斯諾登就一直住在莫斯科。
Dr. Tyson was among the many users of the network to welcome the whistle-blower, and the first Mr. Snowden responded to, striking up a brief conversation.
泰森博士是向這位泄密者表示歡迎的衆多Twitter用戶之一，也是斯諾登第一個回覆的人，兩人進行了簡短對話。
Mr. Snowden’s short Twitter biography reads: “I used to work for the government. Now I work for the public.” It also mentions his role as a director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, a nonprofit organization “helping support and defend public interest journalism focused on exposing mismanagement, corruption and law-breaking in government,” which has as one of its founders Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War.
斯諾登Twitter帳戶上的簡介寫道：“曾經我爲政府工作。現在我爲公衆服務。”其中也提到了他目前是新聞自由基金會(Freedom of the Press Foundation) 的一名總監。該基金會是非營利組織，旨在“幫助支持和捍衛符合公衆利益的新聞報道，側重於揭露政府的管理不善、腐敗和違法問題”，其創始人之一丹尼爾·埃爾斯伯格(Daniel Ellsberg)曾在越南戰爭期間曝光了五角大樓文件(Pentagon Papers)。
