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.
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
I remember her from SerpentZa video back in the day. Quite a character…
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?
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.
Her partner is Uighur.
