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.
Naomi is awesome, her 3D printing content was great and it seems she played a part in making the Ender 3 open source. I noticed she hasn’t been active on Twitter or Mastodon lately. This definitely sucks, hope it gets better for her.