When China’s prodigious tech influencer, Naomi Wu, found herself silenced, it wasn’t just the machinery of a surveillance state at play. Instead, it was a confluence of state repression and the sometimes capricious attention of a Western audience that, as she asserts, often views Chinese activists more as ideological tokens than as genuine human beings.

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    1 year ago

    Please read past the headline, there’s an important story here with through lines of corruption, cybersecurity, and complexities of living in a state like that

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    1 year ago

    I remember her from SerpentZa video back in the day. Quite a character…

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    1 year ago

    Never heard of her, but why can’t her partner (Kaidi?) leave? Can’t they sneak across the border and start a new life I dunno… in Europe, Australia, Japan, or something?

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      1 year ago

      You’re looking at it from a logical view,

      The answer is pretty much that her partner is a minority that the state hates, so they want to punish that person and anyone who supports her,

      And it’s just that. Perhaps they could escape, but I presume they both have family there, and then they may not be able to return, etc.