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...

Apparently, the Chinese government brought the hammer down on Naomi for pointing out how they spy on Signal used via a third-party keyboard on phones

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  • argv_minus_one@beehaw.orgEnglish
    241·
    1 year ago

    Sounds like that “bug” was actually a feature and Naomi just pissed off some government surveillance spooks by breaking their toys. God help her.

    By the way, her girlfriend is part of an ethnic group that the Chinese government is currently genociding.

    And you thought the USA was a bad place to live…

    • tiredofsametab@kbin.social
      27·
      1 year ago

      And you thought the USA was a bad place.

      I can think that both are bad places to different degrees for different reasons. Particularly when some would like for the US to become more like that.