Pointed out that the silence of Naomi Wu, China's 'sexy cyborg', suggests that the Chinese government will strengthen the suppression of LGBTQ



Naomi Wu , a technology influencer from Shenzhen, China, is also called a 'sexy cyborg' because of her extensive knowledge of DIY and technology, as well as her exposed appearance and experience of breast augmentation surgery. I'm here. Cybersecurity writer Jackie Singh talks about the fact that Wu, who is an openly lesbian and has strong support from the LGBTQ community, has stopped posting on social media under pressure from the Chinese government. It also reports the content of Mr. Wu's direct interview.

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Mr. Wu is an influencer who is attracting attention for his electronic work using 3D printers, etc. At the time of writing the article, the number of subscribers to the YouTube channel was about 1.61 million, X followers about 248,000, and Instagram followers. It is about 175,000 people.

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Mr. Wu is good at DIY and gadget reviews based on diverse knowledge, and in the video below, Razer's high-tech mask that advertised ' N95 grade filters' is not actually N95 equivalent. In response to Mr. Wu's review, Razer was forced to remove the 'N95 grade filter' notation from all marketing materials.

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In addition to wearing conspicuous clothes such as hot pants, Mr. Wu also professes that he has breast augmentation surgery, and is also a lesbian with a Uyghur Kaidi partner. These characteristics have increased the attention on Mr. Wu and are also factors that attract various criticisms.

Mr. Singh pointed out that the Western media has consistently reported unfavorably to Mr. Wu, and Dale Dougherty, founder of the technology magazine Make , said in 2017, `` Mr. Wu is run by multiple people. It's content that's supposed to be, and it's not a real person,' he later apologized , admitting that 'my reaction reflected an unconscious bias.'

In 2018, overseas media VICE conducted a close interview with Mr. Wu and published an article about him. Although Mr. Wu refused to disclose information about his private life, it seems that private information was written in the posted article. Wu responded by publishing the addresses of VICE's editors, but VICE said, 'If we avoid these subjects, the stories we report will be incomplete. ', and continues to publish articles even at the time of article creation.

'Despite his audience being primarily in the West, Mr. Wu has consistently received unfavorable treatment from the Western media, often tinged with misogyny ,' Singh said. I am.”

Mr. Wu posted on X on July 8, 2023, ``You may not have noticed yet, but I had my wings cut. So posting on social media anymore would be a very limited subject, I can leave here but my partner Kaidi can't so we're going to have to follow the new rules. If I don't like or reply like I used to, don't feel bad, I'll focus on the store and sometimes the video.Thanks for your understanding, It's been fun until now.' After that, he stopped his activities on SNS.



Although Mr. Xing has faced scrutiny by Chinese authorities in the past, Mr. Xin said he questioned the lack of coverage in the Western media, deliberately trying to avoid provoking the Chinese authorities. I suspect that they are withholding reports.

Mr. Wu, who is a lesbian, is also a big icon for the global LGBTQ community, and the fact that Mr. Wu has been subject to surveillance and censorship by the Chinese authorities has made the LGBTQ community a new target of oppression following the Uyghurs. Singh points out that it suggests a possibility. In fact, in recent years, police officials have been harassing people involved in the LGBT movement, and it seems that this is called by the slang word 'tea drinking'.

In addition, the Beijing LGBT Center , which was established in 2008 to support LGBT people in China, will be dissolved in May 2023, and the SNS account only stated that the reason for dissolution was 'force majeure' .

When Mr. Xin interviewed Mr. Wu about the series of events, Mr. Wu said, ``The reason why I have been tied to the Internet for the past few years is that the authorities are worried that if they crack down on this guy, China will have a bad impression. The authorities now know that if I were dead in the ditch tomorrow, no one would care or say anything,' he said, fearing for his life. It was suggested that there was

The pressure by the Chinese authorities this time may be related to a case in which a vulnerability in Sogou, a Chinese input software owned by Tencent, was revealed by Canadian research institute Citizen Lab. thinks Wu. As of 2019, Mr. Wu tweeted that if there was a vulnerability in keyboard software such as Sogou, it could bypass the security present in the messaging app Signal and steal input content. . In this case, there is a possibility that this tweet caught the attention of the Chinese authorities.



Wu told Xin, 'One of the most outspoken voices coming out of China has been removed from the platform after tweeting every day for eight years. Nobody cares. I'm in the ditch. We may die, but we're not really human beings, we're just billboards for Westerners to shake hands with each other in an ideological war.'

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