I had the same question, and found the answer in the thread.
It would be like if Steve from GN was detained during a fab visit by the Chinese government. That would be tech news regardless of whether or not they mentioned GN.
She’s been meaningful to the community both as an engineer/designer and as a public figure.
You really don’t deserve down votes for not knowing that, but I think a lot of people were just triggered by the way you asked the question.