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...

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.

    • GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      291·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.worldEnglish
      102·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        61·
        1 year ago

        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?

    • Arcturus@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

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