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.

  • Arcturus@kbin.social
    47·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • English Mobster@lemmy.worldEnglish
      808·
      1 year ago

      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…

      • RunningSpaces@lemm.eeEnglish
        42·
        1 year ago

        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