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tardigrada OP , to technology in Where is Naomi Wu?

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.

[…]

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 ,

Yeah she’s ok but I miss her content too 😢

NaibofTabr ,

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 OP ,

Yeah, I too hope she is well but there’s been no news in a long time.

jawa21 ,
@jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

She did release a book 8 months ago. It’s in the community tab of her YT page.

vzq , to technology in Where is Naomi Wu?

The “wings clipped” tweet still haunts me.

She is such a remarkable and genuine person, we are all worse off without her contributions.

SnotFlickerman , to technology in Where is Naomi Wu?
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Fuck.

Godspeed, Naomi.

halm , (edited ) to technology in Where is Naomi Wu?
@halm@leminal.space avatar

That’s a chilling read. Wu was only ever on the periphery of my attention — some tech advice here, the odd flash of TMI there — so I thought nothing of it when she fell off the radar.

Realising that she had gotten so relatively big, despite her circumstances, that government agencies were only waiting for fickle Western users like myself showing signs of indifference, before doing …whatever they’ve done to her… serves as a constant reminder that not everone online is here on an equal footing with, say, the average North American or European.

I’d love if some of the terminally online keyboard warriors (that didn’t rally to support her last year) might at least do an investigation into her current situation.

Edited for clarity.

tiredofsametab ,

a sign of fickle Western users like myself before doing

So if someone is into a person or thing at a point, they can never become not interested in that thing? I'm confused by the message here.

halm ,
@halm@leminal.space avatar

Person. We’re talking about a person in a precarious situation who was basically doxxed by Vice, and more or less shrugged off by the general online public.

It’s not like you deciding you’re not into vaporwave anymore.

renard_roux ,

Background on the Vice stuff for those interested 👍

tiredofsametab ,

I was never into her or her content (IIRC, she wasn't making anything that caught my attention), so this was more of a general question (hence 'person or thing' in my question) rather than specific to her situation.

Deceptichum ,
@Deceptichum@quokk.au avatar

You’re talking about requiring fans to give a lifetime commitment to a figure.

halm ,
@halm@leminal.space avatar

No, I’m talking about people seeing past f—ng fandom to the reality that others they meet online, or whose content they consume, may live under less free circumstances than themselves.

She was outed by Vice, which seems to have been met with apathy by the online community, and it looks like the authorities cracked down on her as a consequence. The insistence of some commenters to see this through a “fan” or “taste” lens is pretty blinkered.

recursive_recursion , to technology in Where is Naomi Wu?
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Losing Naomi Wu to the CCP was a catastrophic loss to the FOSS community, I remember that she once went directly to confront a company (I think located in China) to demand for the release of their modified version of a copyleft software

I hope she’s still alive and doing well

50MYT , to technology in Where is Naomi Wu?

One of the subs that was mentioning her had an update: she updated some files on GitHub in Jan. That’s the last mention?

Generative , to technology in Where is Naomi Wu?

She continues to post from Twitter.com/nukittobesure

halm ,
@halm@leminal.space avatar

Cool, and she updates her github repos now and then. Good to know.

LiveLM , to technology in Where is Naomi Wu?
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