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.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    314·
    1 year ago

    No. This is very relevant to this community. Naomi has been a great member of this community. She is an engineer and is known for bringing innovative products to market; many with her name on them.

    Furthermore she is being targeted for LGBTQ+. That makes the issue doubly relevant to all real humans.

    • Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.worldEnglish
      72·
      1 year ago

      Yup. Naomi is generally one of the (modern) OGs of “maker” culture. And folk like her, Simone Giertz, and Xyla Foxlin are very much doing massive stem outreach “offline” while occasionally also doing some awesome on social media/youtube. Kind of fun to see even folk like Alan Pan act almost reverent to her when they do collabs.

      That said, incels REALLY hate Naomi for whatever reason.

      • lysdexic@programming.devEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        That said, incels REALLY hate Naomi for whatever reason.

        I think you’re way out of line with the insults and broad accusations. I am bare new to the 3D printing community and I never heard of Naomi Wu before. The article only mentions she is an influencer, and this discussion makes little to no efforts to add context to why is a particular influencer relevant to 3D printing.

        Calls to clarification are faced with comments like yours, accusing those of asking a simple question of being incels.

        This behavior reflects poorly upon you in particular and the 3D printing community in general. Please pay attention to what you say and do.