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 a confluence of state repression and the sometimes capricious attention of a Western audience that, as she asserts, often views Chinese activists more as ideological tokens than as genuine human beings.
Why are they going after people
Seems you haven’t read the second half of the title, as well as the second half of the article.
TBH I had trouble getting past
As an example, here she is comprehensively breaking down the capabilities (or lack thereof) of a high-tech filtration mask in a manner which is likely to be beyond your understanding
Just… Why?
It felt very condescending :/
I think you can congratulate or acknowledge someone’s talents or skills without being off putting towards those who don’t have them. I think the stuff the maker does is incredible and the tone by the journalist is strange, I would really like to know their reasoning to get a better understanding.