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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 h

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.

sebmellen 6y ago
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.
- dirtyid 6y ago
  Kill the chicken to scare the monkey. It's less strange than time tested.