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Angering China Can Now Get You Fired
- ycombonator 7y agoWait what did the globalists of the 90s think a communist regime would do ?
- georgeecollins 7y agoBecome more open and liberal as it got more prosperous. At that time people thought Russia was going to transform into a European democracy. If that happened it was plausible to imagine a similar reform in China.
- Gibbon1 7y agoDid any of these people get fired for being so foolish? No? Alright then.
- kjs3 7y agoYes, everyone who thought something we now think of as foolish 25 years ago should be fired: economic liberalization of relations with the East will be a net positive, OOP solving all programming problems, Don't ask/Don't tell, Beanie Babies. Death is too good for them.
- sithadmin 7y agoAlso not limited to HK. Last year, due to pressures from China, Marriott fired a social media manager for 'liking' a tweet that alluded to Tibet as an independent country: https://gizmodo.com/after-china-got-mad-marriott-fired-a-social-media-mana-1823500225 https://gizmodo.com/after-china-got-mad-marriott-fired-a-soc...