Thank you for the link. I find things like this fascinating. I really wonder what life is like for the super-rich and politically connected. It must be a different world. I think the NYT piece does a fair job of not making unfounded and sensationalist claims, instead just pointing out connections.
I do wonder what went into Bloomberg not publishing it. This is what I bristle at: China being able to exert influence about what is and isn't published, what movies are and aren't made and so on.
It's even more problematic when China doesn't even need to exert that influence directly but instead rely on self-censorship from companies hoping to do business in China. Particularly news organization should never compromise themselves that way in the hopes of pleasing China (or at least not angering it). I hope Bloomberg didn't do this.
>I do wonder what went into Bloomberg not publishing it.
China kicks people out that criticize the government. We saw it recently with the WSJ, WaPo, and NYT reporters recently. If Bloomberg wanted to continue operating in China, it had to pull back on critical reporting. It is an offensive calculation, but very clear what happened.
Fortunately you can still release/publish films in the US that are critical of the DoD (provided you don’t use classified material to do so, such as in the case of Collateral Murder, because then, legal or not, they will do their best to torture you to death).
Laura Poitras, for example, is still basically free, having released the film about Snowden.
I am not so sure that is the same thing as revoking a business license for saying something the government doesn’t like published.
I do wonder what went into Bloomberg not publishing it. This is what I bristle at: China being able to exert influence about what is and isn't published, what movies are and aren't made and so on.
It's even more problematic when China doesn't even need to exert that influence directly but instead rely on self-censorship from companies hoping to do business in China. Particularly news organization should never compromise themselves that way in the hopes of pleasing China (or at least not angering it). I hope Bloomberg didn't do this.