Tencent said to have demoted and fired tech bosses after brief outages

A late March outage of Tencent's two major social platforms, WeChat and QQ, resulted in the firing of managers and directors, thereby proving that the hand of justice at the Chinese tech giant is, well, rather strong. According to Chinese media outlet Jiemian News, which sits on Beijing's list of approved media outlets, WeChat …

[ecofeco]

There is a lot to dislike about Chinese society

But holding executives feet to the fire is not one of them.

Lucky them. In previous times (IIRC not even a decade ago) they would have been executed. Not even joking. I think they still do if fraud is involved.

Or, to use the old catchphrase (meme for you hipsters) they would have been soooo fired.

[Snowy]

Re: There is a lot to dislike about Chinese society

It very much depends on who your "friends" are.

[chivo243]

Re: There is a lot to dislike about Chinese society

Who's your Daddy carries a bit of weight... Dynasties and all that.

[ecofeco]

Re: There is a lot to dislike about Chinese society

Where doesn't it?

Which sucks, but here we are.

[PhilipN]

Re: There is a lot to dislike about Chinese society

“IIRC” - no, you don’t

[ecofeco]

Re: There is a lot to dislike about Chinese society

You're right. It was as little as 2 years ago.

https://apnews.com/article/world-news-tianjin-china-asset-management-2f5d1248477a8e044d9fa7b6899ca406

LOL! my bad! As little as last year.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/former-official-regulator-sentenced-death-by-china-corruption-2022-06-02/

What was your point?

[PhilipN]

Re: There is a lot to dislike about Chinese society

Proved my point.

[DS999]

Accountability for the people in charge?

Sorry China you're doing it wrong! If you want to overtake the US you need to look at examples like Boeing with the 737 Max or pretty much the entire banking industry in 2008. They found a few mid level people to place the blame on, while those at the top emerged unscathed and later get bonuses for all that "hard work" of dealing with the crisis! That's how you attract and retain the best people, pay them a ridiculously large multiple over the average worker and make sure they never have to take the blame for even the biggest screwups!

[Potemkine!]

Were they sent to Laogai?

[Tom 38]

WeChat is often ranked as the most used app in China. At the end of 2022, Statista clocked the platform as having over 1.3 million monthly active users.

Should be billion surely?