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Can you elaborate? To me it reads like she outed herself by going against tencent, or more probably/accurately, her government and one of its convenience spyware. She had already said for many years that she was under scrutiny, and her assumption was that her western followers would somehow compel the CCP to back off.
I'm not a hater, but for anyone paying attention that's ludicrous. With her knowledge, she couldn't be that naive.
Wasn't she an open lesbian on YouTube? CCP thugs could have watched her channel and gleaned the same info.
Ok, not to be pedant, but it's her activism that got her in trouble, not Vice? Just trying to connect the dots between this message and the previous one.
Also, not defending Vice, I did read the article and it looks like Naomi freaked out and lashed at Vice on social media before she even got to read the piece about her, which might have Streisanded the same things she wanted to keep under the rug (ironically and to the point, despite having watched many videos of her, it's your post that made me aware of the matter of her sexuality, which I suspect not many of her followers in the maker space care about).
Fine, care to explain how? I'm legit curious (despite the hostile tone).
Regarding the Vice piece, here's what you find in it:
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I know this is one-sided, but if at least the chronology is correct, this seems overblown.
This other piece below mentions her not so recent history of activism "conflicting" with the law enforcement of her country, this predates Vice (2018):
https://www.hackingbutlegal.com/p/naomi-wu-and-the-silence-that-speaks-volumes?
You could just check my posts history before calling me a "tankie", I even have this apparent habit of drawing hostility from anything lemmygrad and hexbear-related, which makes your comment extra funny.
Then if you could please point-out what exactly I wrote that makes you think that I am blaming her (or anyone?), and for what (?), that'd be helpful.
I know her works because they overlap with some of my hobbies, in other words, I "know" her for what she does, but not so much the side of her activism on social media. If I got myself trapped in some controversy, and that just mentioning some aspects of it is taboo, then so be it, I'll make sure to stay away from the vendetta.