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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    She was always keeping a moderate tone, always leaning towards supporting China and the Chinese state as well. I thought she’d skip around the censors because of it.

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      China doesn’t care. They’ll betray anyone in an instant, because they’re fascists masquerading as the “party of the people”.

      The fact that there are so many pro-China supporters on Lemmy that want this shit makes me sad. Lemmy.ml, Lemmygrad (same people), Hexbear…

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        It’s mainly due to the fact that to us Westerners we wish we could have the stability in China. I will say I personally see China as a state that will crumble and then it’ll reform to different communes (that is my hope). Or we get Romance of The Three Kingdoms but Cyber core

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        The short answer is that she reported a security vulnerability in a popular Android keyboard. It basically operated as a keylogger. The logical assumption is that the government was using that to spy on people (even people using secure messengers) and did not appreciate the secret getting out to the public.

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        Because they are fascists with power. You can praise them all day every day but when it comes down if you are different in any way they will see you as a deviant and a sickness.

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        Why are they going after people

        Seems you haven’t read the second half of the title, as well as the second half of the article.

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          TBH I had trouble getting past

          As an example, here she is comprehensively breaking down the capabilities (or lack thereof) of a high-tech filtration mask in a manner which is likely to be beyond your understanding

          Just… Why?

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            It depends on whether you read it as meaning that it goes into more depth than people understand, or are capable of understanding.

            I know that most people don’t understand how HEPA filters work. In a nutshell, they’re not just tiny sieves, but work via different methods: impaction, interception and diffusion (and sometimes electrostatic attraction). This means that e.g. a 0.3 μm N95 mask is better at filtering 0.1 μm virus particles than larger 0.3 μm air pollution because they advertise the size at which it’s worst at filtering.

            This isn’t particularly difficult science, but hardly anyone knows it. I think that most people are capable of understanding the concepts behind it, like Brownian motion, but then most people I meet are fairly smart so I’m not the best judge.

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        Because it’s not enough.
        She wasn’t enough.
        She doesn’t fit the box perfectly.
        And she was too popular to ignore.