The last tweet I saw from her that she can’t post on social media anymore and other people talking about it seem to be anti-China.

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    IIRC Hasan Minhaj did her dirty with the editing in an episode of his show making her look way more aggressively anti-CCP than she is, she got visited by the Chinese police, and has kept a low profile since then.

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      In her own words:

      Hasan Minhaj, of the Netflix show “Patriot Act”, decided that in a feature incredibly critical of the Chinese government, its leaders, and its policies- to splice in clips of me- a high profile PRC citizen, living in China, without my permission and completely out of context.

      The video segment was extracted from a feature I shot for the Wall Street Journal years earlier (who were absolutely professional and took the written agreement that I have provided journalists for years not to discuss anything that might pertain to my sexual orientation or relationship status very seriously). The Patriot Act included the footage in such a way as to make it appears I was a willing participant in a video attacking Chinese leadership.

      This is insanely dangerous.

      It was not simply dangerous, it was also deceitful. Hasan took a quote where I spoke to the Wall Street Journal about financial privacy (the government being able to see online payments) and took it out of context to make it look like I was defending online censorship.

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        Lmao typical xenophile liberal constantly getting screwed over by foreigners.

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        Thanks for posting this.

        To be an enemy of the US is dangerous but to be a friend is fatal.

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        But this was 2019, why did she go quiet on (the website formerly known as) twitter so recently? And what did she mean by getting “wings clipped” in the tweet?

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    iirc, she was caught up with one of the US backed LGBT orgs that were somewhere between anti-communist influence campaigns and outright spying

    edit: i remembered incorrectly. see the medium article posted.

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      If true, the lesson is never go full yeonmi-park before reaching US soil.