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Naomi Wu Arrested by Chinese Police?

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Not arrested. There was a misunderstanding, I cleared it up. In China you are often given the...opportunity to informally deal with these issues. I was not give a choice about the meeting, there is no way to know the intent and duration of these meetings, or when you will be...invited to one- so my friends acted accordingly and followed established procedure.

I just want to build things, show off my city, and it's tech. I'm doing my best to act normally, update my channel normally and not be at the center of any larger discussions likely to cause me additional difficulty.

I'm meeting with Bunnie Huang this weekend and he'll be able to verify I'm no longer in custody and in control of my accounts.

According to a comment she (her account anyway) left on a YouTube video one day ago, she is now ok but can't go into detail. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSG4FvQaxsQ Screenshot https://i.imgur.com/n5yC6II.png

She does not want this made public. This post is in no one's interest other than whoever tried to get her arrested. The situation was resolved. This post is an attempt to use an archive of a past incident to harass and get her further into trouble. Please flag this shit.

The streisand effect says that the harder you try to hide something, the more people see it.

It is between her and her country which from all indications she loves, respects, and tries to do exactly what they ask of her while positively promoting their companies and technology.

The use of #theworldiswatching by her friends kinda undermines that point.

It is between her and her country which from all indications she loves

That's an interesting claim to make considering absolutely nobody is claiming otherwise (except perhaps the police).

This post is an attempt to use an archive of a past incident to harass and get her further into trouble.

As the person who submitted this: no, it's not. Refusing to discuss police (Chinese or otherwise) overstepping their bounds simply furthers their ability to overstep their bounds. Should we not talk about Tienanmen Square or Meng Hongwei? Pinochet? Trump's new concentration camps (after ICE vowed to not build more)? How about when Raul Castro's police pull random people off the street and disappear them? Should we not share those videos?

> Should we not share those videos?

When the incident is ongoing, the person affected is free again and clearly does not want a public debate? Yes, you should respect that, refrain from doing so and weigh in when it is discussed after the fact. I believe you when you say that harassment isn't your goal but a HN discussion will neither solve any of the underlying issues, nor is there even a remote chance of being helpful to the actual victim.

As the deleted tweet shows she clearly has a network in place to let you know when actions like this might be helpful. Days after, that's pretty doubtful.

I don't speak for her and neither should you. No one should want someone else to take individual risks to defend your or anyone else's opinions that you claim they represent.

I don't speak for her and neither should you.

Oddly enough, I'm not.

Well this is concerning.

Shamir's secret is a way of splitting up a key between multiple keyholders. It seems Naomi Wu's keyholders activated, and posted this photo of her being in a police van.

It doesn't seem like she's in handcuffs though, and that's a regular street officer, not PLA. Anyone have additional context?

Tweet is from July 12. I couldn't find any new info from googling.

What's the explanation for why the tweet would be deleted? (It is if you check twitter directly.) The Chinese police logged in and deleted it? I would think if her Secret Share team had to take control of her account, the first move would be to change the password.

EDIT: Seeing some other responses, perhaps she didn't want it up in the first place. Too little information to speculate.

Popping in to point out that so far what we have is a picture on twitter, nothing more, and to offer a general reminder that waiting to learn details is generally better than speculation. I hope it's not the case that Wu was arrested, I wouldn't be surprised if it was, lets wait and get some confirmations before offering too much commentary.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/09/20/224498227...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20464139

> Not arrested. There was a misunderstanding, I cleared it up.

I'll repeat for downvoters in the back: waiting to learn details is generally better than speculation.

Settle down & get the facts straight before repeating things (see point #9 in the NPR link above).

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