中华民国九十九年五月十日，就是Dropbox君遇害的那一天，我独在墙外徘徊，遇见推友们，前来问我道，“先生可曾为Dropbox君写了一点什么没有？”我说“没有”。他们就正告我，“先生还是写一点罢；很多人都是听先生的推荐才知道Dropbox君的。”
这是我知道的，凡我用过的网络存储服务，大概是因为功能和速度的缘故，甚少使用，更不会推荐给他人，直至遇到Dropbox君，在这样的生活中，毅然将Dropbox放入我电脑“启动”组里的软件，这几年来就只有她。我也早觉得有写一点东西的必要了，倘使我能够相信真有所谓“在天之灵”，那自然可以得到更大的安慰，——但是，现在，却只能如此而已。
可是我实在无话可说。我只觉得所住的并非人间。放在Dropbox里数百兆的工作和学习文档都再也无法访问，使我艰于呼吸视听，那里还能有什么言语？长歌当哭，是必须在痛定之后的。而此后几个五毛的阴险的论调，尤使我觉得悲哀。我已经出离愤怒了。我将深味这非人间的浓黑的悲凉；以我的最大哀痛显示于非人间，使它们快意于我的苦痛，就将这作为后死者的菲薄的祭品，奉献于逝者的灵前。
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真的猛士，敢于直面惨淡的人生，敢于正视淋漓的鲜血。这是怎样的哀痛者和幸福者？然而造化又常常为庸人设计，以时间的流驶，来洗涤旧迹，仅使留下淡红的血色和微漠的悲哀。在这淡红的血色和微漠的悲哀中，又给人暂得偷生，维持着这似人非人的世界。我不知道这样的世界何时是一个尽头！
我们还在这样的世上活着；我也早觉得有写一点东西的必要了。离2012还有两年，忘却的救主快要降临了罢，我正有写一点东西的必要了。
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在无数被害网站之中，Dropbox是我的最爱。一个划时代的云存储服务，我向来是这样评价她。这样说，现在却觉得有些踌躇了，我应该对她奉献我的悲哀与尊敬。她不是“苟活到现在”的无良网站，而是一个无辜被封杀的深受网民喜爱的服务。
Dropbox的名字第一次为我所见，是在去年Gmail的一封邮件里，我的一个好友发邮件推荐我注册这个服务，就是Dropbox；但是我注册后发现需要安装客户端，令我踌躇不前。直到后来，越来越多的朋友发来邮件邀请我注册，才令我感到诧异，这到底是个什么服务，居然有这么大的魅力，后来一个好友告诉我，说：这就是云存储服务。其时我才恍然大悟，原来这个服务能实现多台电脑上文件的自动同步和更新，心中却暗自诧异。我平素想，为了同步文件，无论如何也需要用U盘将文件拷贝粘贴，总有些麻烦，而使用Dropbox竟然可以自动完成这所有的更新操作，实在节省了我大量的时间，于是我使用Dropbox的时间就多了起来，直到将其加入“启动”组，成为我电脑必备的软件，虽然中途也见过微软的Mesh等同类软件，到总觉得速度和性能Dropbox最优，直到昨日Dropbox突然被害，才发现在我的记忆上，昨日的Dropbox就是永别了。
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我在十日的早晨，还发文章向网友推荐Dropbox，并分享了阮一峰翻译的“Dropbox的创业经历”的PPT；下午便得到噩耗，说Dropbox居然被封杀，连https都无法访问，而客户端一经退出就再无法登录。但我对于这些传说，竟至于颇为怀疑。我向来是不惮以最坏的恶意，来推测中国的□□□□，然而我还不料，也不信竟会下劣凶残到这地步。况且始终没有任何意识形态的工具软件Dropbox，更何至于无端在屏幕前喋血呢？
然而即日证明是事实了，作证的便是访问Dropbox出现的“连接被重置”的错误页面。而且又证明着这不但是封杀，简直是定点封杀，因为所有包含dropbox.com的链接都无法打开。
但现在□□□□就有令，说她是包含“有害信息”的工具！
但接着就有流言，说她是被“海外敌对势力”利用的。
惨象，已使我目不忍视了；流言，尤使我耳不忍闻。我还有什么话可说呢？我懂得衰亡民族之所以默无声息的缘由了。沉默呵，沉默呵！不在沉默中爆发，就在沉默中灭亡。
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但是，我还有要说的话。
我没有亲见；听说她，Dropbox，是一群年轻创业者的创新之作，深受用户欢迎，依靠使用者的口碑传播而获得了数百万注册用户，一个网络存储工具，稍有人心者，谁也不会料到有这样的结果。但竟在中国遇害了，先是其文件分享域名dl.dropbox.com中弹，已经使得用户分享的文件无法从网上访问，只是Dropbox客户端还没有便死，同时使用https的方式还可以访问，但是现在dropbox.com的域名进入了黑名单，IP地址也被封锁，这两种方式无疑是致命的，Dropbox终于是死掉了。
始终没有任何意识形态的网络存储工具Dropbox确是遇害了，这是真的，有“连接被重置”的网页为证；沉勇而友爱的Twitter君也死掉了，有她的网页为证；只有一样沉勇而友爱的Google君还在香港的医院里呻吟。当三个深受网民喜爱的工具网站从容地转辗于□□□□所发明的防火墙包围中的时候，这是怎样的一个惊心动魄的伟大呵！□□□□宣称“中国的互联网是开放的”，“中国政府鼓励互联网的发展”的夸夸其词，不幸全被这几缕血痕抹杀了。
但是□□□□却居然昂起头来，不知道个个脸上有着血污……。
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我已经说过：我向来是不惮以最坏的恶意来推测中国人的。但这回却很有几点出于我的意外。一是当局者竟会这样地凶残，一是□□□□竟至如此之下劣，一是不作恶的网站临难竟能如是之从容。
苟活者在淡红的血色中，会依稀看见微茫的希望；真的猛士，将更奋然而前行。
呜呼，我说不出话，但以此记念Dropbox君！
发表于民国九十九年五月十一日
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| 1949: The People's Republic Is Born Mao Zedong declares the founding of the People's Republic of China on Oct. 1 in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. |
| 1958: A "Great Leap Forward" Employees of the Shin Chiao Hotel in Beijing build a rudimentary smelting steel furnace in the hotel courtyard in October. The Great Leap Forward, a scheme for mass industralization and collectivized farming designed as a Five-Year Plan from 1958 to 1963, was abandoned early after it led to widespread famine and the deaths of millions. |
| 1959: The Dalai Lama Flees Tibet Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama, sixth from left, rests with members of an escape party who protected him during his flight across the Himalayas to exile. The Dalai Lama left the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, on the night of March 17 after a failed Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule. |
| 1966: The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution Chinese Red Guards publicly parade their victims, who wear dunce caps and signs proclaiming their crimes, through the streets of Beijing. The Cultural Revolution of 1966-1976 unleashed radicalized youth against so-called antirevolutionary groups who protested Mao's policies. This photo's date is unknown. |
| 1969: A Cult of Personality Red Guards parade through street carrying red flags and a portrait of Mao Zedong. The Cultural Revolution was launched by Mao in part to regain control of the party after the disasters of the Great Leap Forward, but its extremities shaped up to be another destructive period in modern China's history. |
| 1972: President Nixon Pays a Visit U.S. President Richard Nixon watches Premier Zhou Enlai eat at a banquet in Shanghai on Feb. 28. Nixon was the first President to visit the People's Republic; his trip paved the way for formal diplomatic relations between the two countries. |
| 1981: Confronting Past Excesses Jiang Qing, Mao Zedong's widow, was sentenced to death on Jan. 25 for her role in the Cultural Revolution. Jiang and three other top leaders who formed the Gang of Four were arrested a month after Mao's death in 1976, marking what most consider the true end of the Cultural Revolution era, despite Mao having declared it to be officially over years before. Jiang's sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment. |
| 1984: "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics" Paramount leader Deng Xiaoping visits Shenzhen, once a humble fishing village in southern China until it was turned into the nation's first special economic zone (SEZ) in 1980. Today Shenzhen is considered one of the megacities of the world, with a population 32 times what it was before becoming an SEZ, and is ranked as having the highest quality of life in China. |
| 1989: Massacre in Tiananmen Square The People's Liberation Army cracks down on peaceful pro-democracy demonstrators in June, killing hundreds. In the months before, up to a million student protesters had gathered in the heart of Beijing to demand greater freedom of speech and the resignation of Deng Xiaoping, who declared martial law on May 19, sparking a standoff that ended in the tragedy witnessed worldwide. |
| 1997: The Handover of Hong Kong Members of the combined Chinese armed-forces color guard raise the Chinese flag at the Hong Kong Convention Center on June 30, marking the moment Hong Kong returned to China after 155 years of British rule. Macau, a longtime colony of Portgual, was handed over two years later. |
| 1999: Popular Anti-Americanism Chinese policemen surround the U.S. embassy in Beijing on May 10 to prevent demonstrators from storming the compound, following the accidental NATO bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. Tens of thousands besieged the U.S. embassy for three days, attacking it with chunks of concrete and glasses. |
| 2003: An Unwanted Export Chinese paramedics tend to a man suspected of suffering from Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) after he collapsed in public in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, on April 29. SARS spread from southern China around the world, causing massive economic losses and eventually leading to a shake-up in the country's murky health sector. |
| 2003: The First Taikonaut Staff members examine the re-entry capsule of Shenzhou-5, China's first manned spacecraft, in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on Oct. 16. Yang Liwei, China's first astronaut, or taikonaut, emerged safely. |
| 2008: Tibetans Mark Anniversary Tibetans throw stones at army vehicles on a street in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa after violent protests broke out on March 14. Tibetans were commemorating the 1959 uprising against the Chinese that led to the Dalai Lama's flight and exile. |
| 2008: Disaster Response Troops help a victim of the earthquake in Sichuan province that killed an estimated 70,000 people on May 12. Though faulty state-built infrastructure was partially responsible for the magnitude of the disaster, Beijing was lauded for its fast and thorough response. |
| 2008: Olympic Dreams Fireworks explode above the stadium roof during the Opening Ceremony for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics at the National Stadium on Aug. 8. The Olympics were seen as a "coming out" party for a more modern and growing China on the global stage, and preparation and security for the event were extensi |
| 2008: Public Shame People holding babies who drank tainted milk powders queue to receive Type B ultrasonic examination in a hospital on Sept. 17 in Hubei province. At the time, three infants had already died from melamine-contaminated milk and 6,244 had been sickened, causing a outcry both within China and from countries around the world who rely on Chinese food imports. |
| 2009: Riots in Xinjiang Ethnic Uighur women grab a riot policeman as they protest in Urumqi in the far west province of Xinjiang on July 7. Police fired tear gas to disperse thousands of Han Chinese protesters armed with makeshift weapons. Clashes between the minority Muslim Uighurs and majority Han Chinese claimed hundreds of lives, leading to a security lockdown in the region that lasted for months. |
