EXCLUSIVE: Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes
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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...

cross-posted from: https://merv.news/post/130483

After the last post publicly by Naomi Wu being

“Ok for those of you that haven’t figured it out I got my wings clipped and they weren’t gentle about it- so there’s not going to be much posting on social media anymore and only on very specific subjects. I can leave but Kaidi can’t so we’re just going to follow the new rules and that’s that. Nothing personal if I don’t like and reply like I used to. I’ll be focusing on the store and the occasional video. Thanks for understanding, it was fun while it lasted”

Naomi Wu mentions briefly on her silencing and how she is not nearly as safe as she was before now that it’s obvious to the Chinese government her disappearance won’t cause an uproar of bad press making China look bad.

  • Glarrf@midwest.socialEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Ugh, what a mess. Naomi is an icon to the maker community, this is a big loss. Her work with creality was great.

  • recursive_recursion [they/them]@programming.devEnglish
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    1 year ago

    damn hope she’s able to relocate to a safer location

    she’s made a lot of weird but cool inventions plus she’s also tried to pressure one of the companies for violating a GPL license(can’t remember which)

    it’d be a real shame if we were to lose her just like we’ve lost a lot of cool people for stupid reasons like Alan Turing, I’d be fucking pissed

  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Cross-post from !Technology@lemmy.ml (credit to @Nix@merv.news).

    Naomi is probably one of the more inventive and prolific members of the global maker community. She helped develop the CR-30 (3DPrintMill), among many other projects.

    I doubt anything practical can be done to help with her current situation, but I think the community should be more aware of her work and the pressure she’s under from the Chinese government.