「爆料革命」——數位時代下的集體政治反抗

Abstract

「爆料革命」是郭文貴先生自2017年發起的一場反抗中國共產黨的運動。該運動以消滅中國共產黨、建設「新中國聯邦」為目標，經過數年時間發展，不僅擁有覆蓋全球十餘個國家的全球「喜馬拉雅農場」義工團隊，還在社交媒體、加密貨幣、音樂串流媒體等領域突破中共影響力，取得了傑出的發展成效。爆料革命是首個利用數位時代前沿技術、產業與傳播協作模式反抗中共的政治反抗運動，但學界目前尚未有針對該運動的研究，因此對於該運動的觀察與分析則顯得尤為必要。

本研究圍繞爆料革命的發展實踐，具體回答以下三方面的問題：首先，爆料革命如何動員全球支持群體在社交媒體平台進行直播節目的製作與傳播。其次，爆料革命建立了怎樣的加密貨幣生態與商業應用場景。最後，爆料革命如何透過音樂串流媒體傳播運動理念，並提升運動的關注度與號召力。

本研究引用資源動員理論與政治機會結構，進而提出以下兩項研究假設：

假設一（資源動員理論）：爆料革命有效動員與利用各類資源，促使爆料革命支持群體積極形成線上與實體形式的集體行動，並提升了運動影響力。

假設二（政治機會結構）：爆料革命在社交媒體、加密貨幣、音樂串流媒體等領域的戰略發展，突破了物理上的國家邊界障礙及中國共產黨的影響力，形成了具備數位時代典型特徵的大規模全球傳播。

本研究採用文本分析法和大數據分析法，針對爆料革命在社交媒體、加密貨幣、音樂串流媒體三大領域的發展進行研究，並證實以下發現：

一、爆料革命建設了社交媒體平台GETTR，並組織全球「喜馬拉雅農場」義工團隊在GETTR平台製作及播出了超過數萬場直播節目，傳播了大量運動資訊，並將運動進程由郭文貴先生一人直播爆料推進至轟轟烈烈的網路集體反抗行動。

二、爆料革命透過構建「喜馬拉雅」加密貨幣生態，加強了運動的物質基礎、商業生態與資本合作空間。爆料革命的原創NFT項目「滅共者徽章」則將前沿技術、原創藝術與時代意義完美地結合在了一起，進一步加強了運動的社群關注度。

三、在音樂串流媒體領域，爆料革命創作並發行的「滅共歌曲」長期佔據全球數十個國家及地區的iTunes Store銷量榜，並打破了華人在《告示牌》音樂榜單有史以來的最佳紀錄，取得了輝煌的傳播成績，極大提升了運動的關注度與號召力。

四、郭文貴先生的媒體專訪、網路爆料與記者會，以及「新中國聯邦」的成立與「新中國聯邦宣言」的發佈為運動積累了道德資源。「喜馬拉雅生態系統」為運動拓展了商業資源與資本支持。GETTR平台為運動提供了社交媒體傳播的基礎設施。法治基金與法治社會為運動提供了資金支持。全球「喜馬拉雅農場」義工團隊為運動提供了組織資源、人力資源與物資資源。爆料革命有效動員與利用以上各類資源，成功組織各國支持群體舉行大量線上與實體形式的集體行動。這些集體行動所產生的文化產品也作為運動自我生產的文化資源，進一步提升了爆料革命的影響力、號召力與凝聚力，並加強了運動支持群體的共識和對運動的認同。

五、在社交媒體領域，GETTR平台為運動降低了製作和傳播直播節目的門檻和成本。全球「喜馬拉雅農場」義工團隊於GETTR平台大量製作和傳播的文化作品突破了中共對運動的言論封鎖。在加密貨幣領域，「喜馬拉雅生態系統」為運動提供了中共難以管控的高體量資本流通與開放性商業合作生態。「滅共者徽章」NFT項目則利用區塊鏈技術抗審查和不可篡改的特性，順利突破中共影響力，透過區塊鏈公鏈系統及NFT公開市場傳播運動理念。在音樂串流媒體領域，「滅共歌曲」突破了中共的影響力，在包括中共控制下的香港和澳門在內的全球數十個國家及地區的iTunes Store取得了輝煌的發行與傳播成績。爆料革命在以上三大領域的戰略發展，突破了國境限制與中共的影響力，形成了全球範圍的大規模傳播。

The Whistleblower Movement is a movement resisting the Chinese Communist Party launched by Mr. Guo Wengui in 2017. The movement aims to eliminate the Chinese Communist Party and build the New Federal State of China. After several years of development, it not only has the global “Himalaya Farm” volunteer teams covering more than ten countries around the world, but has also achieved outstanding development results by breaking through the CCP’s influence in the fields of social media, cryptocurrency, and music streaming media. The Whistleblower Movement is the first political resistance movement to resist the CCP by using emerging technologies, industries, and modes of communication and collaboration in the digital era. However, there is currently no research on this movement in the academic community. Therefore, it is particularly necessary to observe and analyze this movement.

This study focuses on the development practices of the Whistleblower Movement and specifically answers the following three questions: Firstly, how the Whistleblower Movement has mobilized global support groups to produce and communicate live programs on social media platforms. Secondly, what kind of cryptocurrency ecology and business application scenarios has the Whistleblower Movement established. Finally, how the Whistleblower Movement has communicated its ideas through music streaming media and enhanced its attention and appeal.

This study refers to resource mobilization theory and political opportunity structure, and then proposes the following two research hypotheses:

Hypothesis 1 (resource mobilization theory): The Whistleblower Movement has prompted its support groups to actively form online and offline collective actions by effectively mobilizing and utilizing various resources, and then enhanced the movement’s influence.

Hypothesis 2 (political opportunity structure): The strategic developments of the Whistleblower Movement in fields of social media, cryptocurrency, and music streaming media have broken through the restriction of physical national borders and the influence of the CCP, and formed large-scale global communication with typical characteristics of the digital era.

This study uses textual analysis and big data analysis to research the Whistleblower Movement’s developments in fields of social media, cryptocurrency, and music streaming media, and confirms the following findings:

1. The Whistleblower Movement has built the social media platform GETTR and organized the global “Himalaya Farm” volunteer teams to produce and broadcast more than tens of thousands of live programs on GETTR platform, to communicate a large amount of information about the movement, and advanced the movement from individual whistleblowing livestreams by Mr. Guo Wengui to vigorous online collective resistance actions.

2. By building the “Himalaya” cryptocurrency ecosystem, the Whistleblower Movement has strengthened the movement's material basis, business ecology, and capital cooperation space. Moreover, the Whistleblower Movement’s original NFT project “Take Down the CCP Badge” has perfectly combined emerging technology, original art and the significance of the times, further strengthening the movement’s community notability.

3. In the field of music streaming media, the “Take Down the CCP Songs” created and released by the Whistleblower Movement have been on the iTunes Store’s sales charts in dozens of countries and regions around the world for a long time, and also broken the best record in Chinese history on the Billboard music charts. They have achieved brilliant communication results, and greatly enhanced the movement’s attention and appeal.

4. Mr. Guo Wengui’s media interviews, whistleblowing livestreams, and press conferences, as well as the founding of the New Federal State of China and the release of the “Declaration of the New Federal State of China” have accumulated moral resources for the movement. The “Himalaya Ecosystem” has expanded commercial resources and capital supports for the movement. The GETTR platform has provided the movement with the infrastructure of social media communication. The Rule of Law Foundation and the Rule of Law Society have provided financial supports for the movement. The global “Himalaya Farm” volunteer teams have provided organizational resources, human resources, and material resources for the movement. The Whistleblower Movement has effectively mobilized and utilized the above various resources, and successfully organized support groups in various countries to hold a large number of online and offline collective actions. Also served as cultural resources self-produced by the movement, the cultural products produced by these collective actions have further enhanced the influence, appeal and cohesion of the Whistleblower Movement, and strengthened the consensus and identification of the movement’s support groups.

5. In the field of social media, the GETTR platform has lowered the threshold and cost of producing and communicating live programs for the movement. The global “Himalaya Farm” volunteer teams has produced and communicated a large number of cultural works on the GETTR platform, breaking through the CCP’s censorship of the movement. In the field of cryptocurrency, the “Himalaya Ecosystem” has brought high-volume capital circulation and open business cooperation ecology to the movement, which are difficult for the CCP to control. The NFT project “Take Down the CCP Badge” has used the censorship resistant and tamperproofing characteristics of blockchain technology to successfully break through the CCP’s influence and spread the movement’s concepts through the public blockchain system and NFT open market. In the field of music streaming media, the “Take Down the CCP Songs” have broken through the CCP’s influence and achieved brilliant release and communication results in dozens of countries and regions around the world, including Hong Kong and Macau which are under the CCP’s control. The Whistleblower Movement’s strategic developments in these three fields has broken through the restriction of national borders and the influence of the CCP, and achieved large-scale global communication.