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.

  • @[email protected]
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    91 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      71 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?

      • urshanabi [he/they]
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        31 year ago

        It felt very condescending :/

        I think you can congratulate or acknowledge someone’s talents or skills without being off putting towards those who don’t have them. I think the stuff the maker does is incredible and the tone by the journalist is strange, I would really like to know their reasoning to get a better understanding.