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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    1 year ago

    Because it’s not enough.
    She wasn’t enough.
    She doesn’t fit the box perfectly.
    And she was too popular to ignore.