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by volgo 1987 days ago
That’s good, everyone should play by the same rule. The rich billionaires should know they can be squashed at any time if they bend the rules
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> That’s good, everyone should play by the same rule.

Again missing the point. There's no rule in dictatorships. The only 'rule' is the whims of the leadership. I wonder why so many people want to leave such countries instead of emigrating there - there must be some kind of reason, but I can't exactly picture it...

He didn’t bend the rules. He had the audacity to voice an opinion.
So did Martin Skrehli. Your point? Publicly fighting with regulators is a bad idea, I’m anywhere in the world, o matter how rich you are
Politely suggesting moderate policy reforms in the context of a business workshop dedicated to such matters is hardly "publicly fighting with regulators" let alone anything deserving of being disappeared.

https://time.com/5926062/jack-ma/

Looks like you, along with many other hawks, were wrong

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/05/alibaba-founder-jack-ma-is-l...

According to an unnamed source. They didn’t even talk to Ma.

In any case, zero relevance to what I was talking about. I think you responded to the wrong comment.

So you talked to Jack Ma? Lol you read a bunch random speculation about how he’s missing when there’s no proof. The. Try to construct a narrative from it
Was Martin Skrehli imprisoned because of expressing his opinion? Or was it because of securities fraud maybe?
He got imprisoned for securities fraud because he expressed his opinion. If he'd kept a low profile he wouldn't have gotten imprisoned.
"We are all equals, some are more equal than others" - Mao Zedong
FYI that's from Animal Farm.
You're not allowed to say what you just said - you will be punished, and your family, and your place of work if you say this again.