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Chinese Giant Tencent Is Suing Bloggers Who Criticize The Company For ‘Reputational Damage’ China's Social Credit System

Chinese Giant Tencent Is Suing Bloggers Who Criticize The Company For ‘Reputational Damage’

from the free-speech dept It appears that the idea of SLAPP suits has moved to China. The Chinese internet giant Tencent is apparently fed up with its own users criticizing the company on its own WeChat blogging platform, and has sued a bunch of them (possib…
bubmag
September 5, 2019
A Government-Run Health Insurance Plan Would Be Less Radical Than Medicare For All. But It Still Wouldn’t Work. Obamacare

A Government-Run Health Insurance Plan Would Be Less Radical Than Medicare For All. But It Still Wouldn’t Work.

The health care debate in the Democratic primary so far has, for the most part, revolved around a single question: Medicare for Allor something else?  Given the persistent political and policy challenges to passing and implementing a single-payer system alon…
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September 5, 2019
A LinkedIn ranking of top startups revealed 5 major trends that founders and investors shouldn’t ignore Electric Scooter

A LinkedIn ranking of top startups revealed 5 major trends that founders and investors shouldn’t ignore

Three years ago, perhaps no one thought a cannabis company would be one of the fastest-growing startups in the US. Yet this week, the cannabis-pen company Dosist claimed the second spot on LinkedIn's list of the top 50 startups in the US — and more impress…
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September 5, 2019