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Former gaming executive sentenced to death in poisoning of billionaire Netflix producer in China

A former executive at Yoozoo Games was sentenced to death on Friday in the 2020 poisoning of the founder of the high-profile Chinese gaming company, which has links to Game of Thrones and the new Netflix series, “The Three-Body Problem.”

Xu Yao poisoned the food of company founder Lin Qi in December 2020 because of a dispute over the running of the business, the Shanghai First Intermediate People’s Court said. The Hollywood Reporter, citing local media, reported at the time Lin was allegedly sickened by a cup of poisoned pu-erh tea.

JoMomma ,

Maybe it’s a bad translation, pu-erth does taste like poison

Snapz ,

Does anyone know if the defendent was also, coincidentally, vocally critical of the government over there?

FlyingSquid ,
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I’m not a fan of the PRC or capital punishment, but actually arresting a CEO is sort of refreshing.

If a CEO in the U.S. committed murder, they’d probably just give the corporation he worked for a fine well below their profit margin.

Jake_Farm ,
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If the guy even did it. It’s not like the CCP is all that concerned with justice.

FlyingSquid ,
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Not an unfair thing to suggest. I was just talking about a CEO facing punishment. Unless you fuck over rich people in the U.S., you’re fine.

I suppose technically this guy fucked over a rich person…

Aurenkin ,

It’s easier in China because lots of people end up confessing to their crimes. I guess they have a lot of surprisingly honest criminals.

psycho_driver ,

Nah I love what they’ve been doing to CEOs/billionaires over there. The irony is that for half a century our greedy capitalists have been pumping so much capital into China to take advantage of cheap, plentiful labor that they’re the dominant global superpower now and will be a real threat to the offspring of said greedy fuckstick capitalists.

FlyingSquid ,
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I don’t think that’s a reason to praise the PRC’s dictatorship. And suggesting they aren’t also greedy capitalists just because they call themselves communists is about as silly as saying the DPRK is democratic because it has that word in its name. Xi Jinping has a net worth of over a billion dollars. Does that sound like the achievement of a communist to you?

finty.com/us/net-worth/xi-jinping/

I don’t support them one bit. I certainly don’t support capital punishment.

I just like seeing CEOs get their due.

Kbin_space_program ,

If you think for a second they're actually doing anything to these people, I have the deed to a bridge in Baltimore I want to sell you

Deceptichum ,
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Nah, just like in China you can’t go after rich connected people in the west either just look at Sam Bankman-Fried.

FlyingSquid ,
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He just got 25 years…

Deceptichum ,
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Exactly, he went after rich people and got arrested.

FlyingSquid ,
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Oh, I see. I misunderstood your previous post.

LibertyLizard ,

It’s only because he went after another aristocrat. It’s the same in the US.

ThrowawayPermanente ,

Or they would take advantage of the media coverage to pivot into a run for elected office

Reverendender ,

Eh, I’ll wait for the Netflix limited series

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