Comment on Where is Naomi Wu?
tardigrada@beehaw.org 2 months ago
Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes (August 2023) — [Archived version]
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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Naomi Wu’s devastating July 7th [2023] tweet alluded to a pressure that had long been feared by many, yet optimistically hoped she could manage to avoid indefinitely.
Ok for those of you that haven’t figured it out I got my wings clipped and they weren’t gentle about it- so there’s not going to be much posting on social media anymore and only on very specific subjects. I can leave but Kaidi can’t so we’re just going to follow the new rules and…
— Naomi Wu 机械妖姬 (@RealSexyCyborg) July 8, 2023
ExhibiCat@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
Yeah she’s ok but I miss her content too 😢
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Is she OK? I’d like to believe that, but as far as I know nothing’s been heard from her for more than a year.
tardigrada@beehaw.org 2 months ago
Yeah, I too hope she is well but there’s been no news in a long time.
jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
She did release a book 8 months ago. It’s in the community tab of her YT page.
ExhibiCat@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
True all I know is the above. But that’s a year ago now…