[HN Gopher] Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes
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       Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes
        
       Author : dsr_
       Score  : 75 points
       Date   : 2023-08-16 21:55 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.hackingbutlegal.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.hackingbutlegal.com)
        
       | lkramer wrote:
       | This is incredibly sad and disturbing, not least because there
       | have been hardly a murmur about this in the west.... I really
       | hope all the best for her and her partner. I hope the tide will
       | turn one day and Chinese people will be allowed to speak their
       | mind again.
        
       | anigbrowl wrote:
       | I'm appalled that I'm only finding out about this now.
        
         | consumer451 wrote:
         | Am I being paranoid in thinking that Musk's exposure in China &
         | disdain for the LGBTQ community could lead him to lower the
         | reach of tweets related to this issue?
        
           | krapp wrote:
           | No. At this point Twitter (I refuse to call it "X" and I will
           | die on this hill) is little more than Elon's personal
           | agitprop and trolling platform, and he would absolutely be
           | petty enough to pull something like that.
        
       | yardie wrote:
       | For context her last Tweet:
       | 
       | "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."
        
         | 0cVlTeIATBs wrote:
         | From my reading it sounds like her girlfriend Kaidi is under
         | house arrest, and potentially both of them under surveillance.
         | I'm guessing frequent checkins with the local police. Hope I'm
         | not misinterpreting.
         | 
         | Article also notes her historic calling out of potential
         | keyboard app keystroke siphoning threats in China could be
         | related. Sogou input recently found to transmit every keystroke
         | by Citizen Lab.
        
       | rchaud wrote:
       | > The omission of her predicament by the media isn't just an
       | oversight--it's a signal suggesting that a significant portion of
       | western media may be increasingly compromised by Beijing's
       | influence, finding themselves unable to criticize foreign policy,
       | lest they rile the tiger and negatively impact their business.
       | 
       | Compromised because they didn't provide coverage of a Youtuber in
       | China getting silenced? You make sound as if western media have
       | been dead silent on Uyghur matters, which they have not.
       | 
       | As for business interests, I would imagine foreign newspapers
       | aren't carrying much hope of finally cracking the Chinese market.
        
       | 4v0v wrote:
       | Censorship from one side or the other is never the answer.
        
       | stefan_ wrote:
       | Getting some ciphersuite error so: https://archive.ph/a6tR8
        
       | neverrroot wrote:
       | SSL error, anyone else? Edit: it works now
        
       | ryandrake wrote:
       | Strange domain. I was not able to resolve the web site's
       | (hackingbutlegal.com) IP address using Google's DNS, OpenDNS, or
       | my ISP's default resolver. Cloudflare's DNS (1.1.1.1) resolves it
       | to an IP address.
        
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