Jack Ma makes first live appearance in three months in online meet

Re:Jack Ma makes first live appearance in three months in on... by SkyMarshal on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @02:28AM (#25843542)

Thanks for digging up that video.

Telling that the Global Times (CPC-affiliated media) refers to him as the "former executive chairman of #Alibaba", and that he's making the video from some "rural teacher-themed social welfare event".

This isn't what normally happens to billionaire corporate executives, unless they've been convicted of violating the law.

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Re:Jack Ma makes first live appearance in three months in on... by sebmellen on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @02:30AM (#25843558)

Good point — the whole matter really is quite strange, whatever one believes about China/the CPC aside. It does seem there's an established pipeline for this sort of "deplatforming" that the CPC has gotten very adept at pushing high-status people through.

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Re:Jack Ma makes first live appearance in three months in on... by dirtyid on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @02:45AM (#25843657)

Kill the chicken to scare the monkey.

It's less strange than time tested.

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