Before now, if you wanted to be heard by your possibly tyrannical government, you were pushed to protest, suffer the consequences and have your fingers crossed that some Western paper somewhere might make someone care.
在此之前，如果你想 你的声音被专制的政府听见， 你就被逼着去游行， 还要承受可能的后果， 还得交叉手指默默祈祷， 希望某家西方的媒体会做些报道， 吸引某些人的关注。