EXCLUSIVE: Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes

https://lemmy.world/post/4307777

EXCLUSIVE: Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes - Lemmy.world

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.

Never heard of her, but why can't her partner (Kaidi?) leave? Can't they sneak across the border and start a new life I dunno... in Europe, Australia, Japan, or something?
Kaidi is Uighur so racism is why she cannot leave.
I'm not sure I understand... why would the Chinese keep somebody they are racist against in the country? To continue being racist against them? Wouldn't they want them to leave? Or are they being treated as free labor?
Every victim of suppression that leaves is a possible dissident operating from abroad