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.

  • @PeleSpirit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29•11 months ago

    She’s fiesty af, didn’t Vice just get into trouble for leaving stuff out of articles or something too?

    In 2018, a reporter from Vice spent three days with Wu in Shenzhen, exploring the city, meeting Wu’s friends, photographing Wu’s home, and describing in depth the local creative history and Wu’s recent creation, the Sino:Bit,[27] a single-board microcontroller for computer education in China, and the first Chinese open-source hardware product to be certified by the Open Source Hardware Association.[26]

    The article which revealed details of her personal life drew criticism from Wu and from others when according to her agreement with Vice, such details should have been left out of the article, out of fear of retaliation by the Chinese government and also to protect her own private life. Vice refused to comply with the agreement and published the details regardless.[28]

    After Vice refused to retract the story, Wu created a video in which she made boots with tiny video screens, which displayed Vice’s editor-in-chief’s home address. Wu’s Patreon account was suspended for doxxing. Wu says this temporarily stalled her independent maker career, and she returned to freelance coding for a brief period of time.[29]

    source

    • Faceman🇦🇺English
      28•11 months ago

      She understands very well the fragility of her situation in regards to the CCP, and the Vice reporters going against her wishes was downright dangerous.

      Her response was harsh and arguably too far, but giving the editor in cheif of vice a tiny taste of the fear and discomfort she and her partner would have felt after they refused to remove sensitive details from the article and video was in many ways justified.

      • Roboticide
        3•11 months ago

        Honestly it doesn’t feel too far to me, and I generally detest doxxing as a tactic.

        We trust and depend on journalists to expose and spread the truth and tell the stories people should see, but it’s never supposed to be at the expense or exploitation of vulnerable people. It’s one thing to expose the personal details of say, a hypocritical politician, but putting an individual’s life at risk just to spice up a story seems to violate most journalistic ethics I’m familiar with.

        • Faceman🇦🇺English
          1•11 months ago

          That’s why I say arguably… I don’t support doxxing, but this was an eye-for-an-eye situation as they must have known the damage they could potentially cause.

          • @schroedingershat@lemmy.world
            3•11 months ago

            Her response was unable to do nearly as much damage as the article. The stakes were much lower for the vice editor and her platform had much lower reach.