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by omnimus 66 days ago
I am not sure this is that clear cut. Naomi Wu agreed to interview then didn't want to answer some of the questions - instead of just saying no… she wrote social media threads and blogposts about how she can't talk about this because it's big bad china and all these western journalists are unprofessional not knowing her risk. For some reason then she tried to actually dox one of the journalists in her video.

Unfortunately looking back it seems pretty plausible that chinese gov censored her exactly because of her blogposts about how she is in danger in china.
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lewi 66 days ago
The journalist knew what she was doing. Naomi was in China, agreed to do an interview about her self & her work, then the journo tried to drum up clicks by putting her on the spot about politics.

Real consequences for the interviewee, all for some clicks. That's not journalism.

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omnimus 65 days ago
I've read the original article again and I don't think people read it. The whole interview is very supportive and based around how much shit she is getting. How she is hated for he appearance, how people don't believe she is technically skilled, that people thinks she is a fake persona or that some male is designing her whole career. Also that she gets many personal threats.

This is just her talking about herself and I am not sure how this is about chinese gov politics or how it is damning/doxing her.

Anyway her response was to find home address of one of the editors and put it in her next video. If i would be journalist and somebody did that to me i would expect my company to use their lawyers.

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mike_hearn 66 days ago
How do you "dox" a journalist? Are they writing under anonymous bylines now?
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SpecialistK 65 days ago
By releasing personal information which a reasonable person would expect to be private? I don't know the specifics of this case (only responding to the overly vague question) but information like address, private contact info, details about their families. Anything you would not immediately expect to become public knowledge simply by writing about topic(s).
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ghaff 65 days ago
In the US at least owning a residence is public record. It can be obfuscated with shell companies and things like that but most people don’t do.
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omnimus 65 days ago
Putting home address of one of the journalists in a video when you have milion subscribers (many of which know about your beef)... that's not fun.
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