She tried to enforce the GPL on a Chinese company and the mainland Chinese government threatened her with... something. Speculation is rampant. Naomi had a Uighur wife, and mainland China is both homophobic and currently doing ethnic cleansing of Uighurs in Xinjiang. In fact, her wife isn't even allowed to leave the country, so it's entirely possible that they said "shut up or we jail her".
The way that authoritarianism[0] works is that there are two sets of laws. The real laws are secret and ever changing. Sometimes they will change for just one person. The published laws are the excuses and punishments they will use against you for violating the real laws you were never told.
[0] In any form of liberalism, the real laws will always be a subset of the published laws. The government is free to not enforce a law they think is obsolete, but they cannot invent a new law without telling anyone and make up a punishment for it.
Thanks for your comment! The part about enforcing the GPL is something I hadn’t heard till now. But still, that’s kinda odd isn’t it, a government being pissed off enough by an individual asking a company to follow GPL rules?
(I’m disappointed nonetheless by the threatening part of course, but surprised yet by the rest.)
