13 barn owls in a trenchcoatAug 16, 2023

I'd been wondering why I'd heard so little from Naomi Wu lately, and the reason is unhappily worse than Twitter breaking API based post mirroring to Mastodon.

(TL;DR, she's been silenced by the authorities.)

Worth reading in full, as the end includes a brief interview and suggests that her earlier highlighting of the security risks of compromised keyboards to E2E encrypted messaging turned out to be potentially relevant.

https://www.hackingbutlegal.com/naomi-wu-and-the-silence-that-speaks-volumes/

Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes

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

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Show threadJan Wildeboer 😷
@HauntedOwlbear @teal she’s been silenced by the authorities AND has been under fire, deplatformed, called names since many years by the mostly male community that decided to relentlessly attack, shame and belittle her. But those that did that to her will never even apologise. Hello, Linus from Linus Tech Tips! Hello Make journalists and editors! I remember what you did!
Aug 16, 2023 at 9:29pmWeb