Before he was arrested in France for failing to adequately moderate criminal activity on his social media app, tech billionaire Pavel Durov was known for three things: founding Telegram, posting thirst-trap photos on Instagram and fathering over 100 children.
科技億萬富翁帕維爾•杜羅夫(Pavel Durov)在法國因未能充分遏制其社群媒體應用上的犯罪活動而被捕之前,他以三件事而聞名:創立Telegram,在Instagram上發佈性感照片,以及有100多個親生孩子。
The last fact is a relatively recent revelation. This summer, Durov surprised his online followers by revealing that a sperm donation he made to a fertility clinic had resulted in children conceived in 12 countries by more than 100 couples. He was, he noted with pride, “high quality donor material”. He then declared plans to “open source” his DNA so that his biological children could find one another more easily. It is a plan his detention has presumably derailed.
最後一個事實是最近才曝光的。今年夏天,杜羅夫透露,他向一家生育診所捐獻的精子讓12個國家的100多對夫婦懷上了孩子,這讓他在網上的粉絲們大喫一驚。他自豪地指出,他是「高質量的捐獻材料」。然後,他宣佈計劃「開源」他的DNA,這樣他的生物學子女就能更容易地找到彼此。他被拘留可能使這一計劃泡湯。
What could possess someone to boast of fathering a biblical number of children? Durov claimed that he wanted his announcement to destigmatise donation. Its strangeness is likely to have had the opposite effect.
是什麼讓一個人誇耀自己是如聖經中般數量衆多的孩子們的親生父親?杜羅夫聲稱,他希望他的聲明能夠消除捐獻的汙名化。它的怪異感很可能產生了相反的效果。