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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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[โ€“] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years 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?