[volgo]

Strange that people are making a huge deal out of this. How’s he missing? To whom? He’s not the CEO of Alibaba anymore and doesn’t have to appear in any events

He’s a billionaire, who’s in trouble with regulators for public ally flouting their regulations. Maybe it’s a good idea to stfu for a few months until it’s settled.

The sentiments from some people on HN are so weird about this. Everyone wants to screw the big bad tech companies for having so much monopolies on what we do, until China does it then it’s “oh no big bad government takes down billionaire.”

Unbelievable

[parhamn]

Are you suggesting there’s hypocrisy in being against the disappearing of business leaders while being pro anti-monopolistic behavior?

[whomst]

I can choose to not use Google, Facebook, etc and market forces still are a factor here. I can't choose to not be born in China, and there is much more friction to leaving China than not using tech products by these companies.

[selfmodruntime]

This is untrue. He is still the CEO of Ant Group, and was set to appear in a "Lion's Den" type show earlier this month.

[Hnrobert42]

How do you know what he is in trouble for? All we know is what the CCP-controlled media tells us.

[volgo]

How do you know he’s even in trouble? Because a bunch of western journalists haven’t seen him personally for a few weeks?

[Hnrobert42]

Are you really trying to draw an equivalence between Western journalists and CCP media outlets?

[volgo]

Looks like you were wrong https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/05/alibaba-founder-jack-ma-is-l...

But you seemed so sure that you were right

[Hnrobert42]

About what was I wrong?