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People are assuming this is about gender, but it may well be about COVID. Wu refused to go along with China's huge policy shift, from trying hard to contain COVID to giving up. She still takes precautions and has been plugging for UV sterilizers and HEPA filters. The government of China has been hassling people who still want to control COVID spread. It's like "return to office" enforced by the cops.

She had a previous visit from "the authorities", and wrote on Twitter, back on June 30th,

"I think the "plainclothes cops" who came to visit today and I told to fuck off were fake since they left when I threatened to call the real cops. That said, in the future it would be super helpful if whoever runs things could give me a contact point so if there is a real issue, I don't tell them to fuck off."

"Personally, I think my uncensored rants and the fact that I get away with them makes us look really good, but if there are certain areas where things are delicate, I'm open to toning it down. Just ask." (She repeated all that in Mandarin.)

"For those of you that are curious- Shenzhen isn't some podunk 4th tier hick town, we have laws- and in my experience they are followed, which is why these two clowns were a whole bundle of red flags. (Yes, they need a warrant and would have had one if they were the real deal)"

Meanwhile, her online store is still up.[1]

[1] https://cybernightmarket.com/

parent Animats 3 years ago

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