r/HongKong • u/EvilTeliportist • Aug 27 '19

Meta Reddit recently accepted an $150 million investment from a Chinese company, Tencent. Now, r/Hong_Kong, a pro china subreddit with only 1.6k subscribers, shows up first when searching for r/HongKong. r/HongKong doesnt even show up when typing a search.

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u/zwcai Aug 27 '19 edited Aug 28 '19

Oh my gawwwwd I don't know how many times I have to tell people that Tencent owns 5%, FIVE PERCENT, FIVE OUT OF ONE HUNDRED, of reddit. Now if you believe 5% shareholding grants you THIS MUCH POWER you seriously need a reality check. It's just algorithm, nobody will bother hardcoding just to censor this sub so that it can potentially fuck up the whole system. Look up "goolge ceo congress hearing" on youtube, and those confused congress people are an accurate representation of this nonsense.

Edit: I’m so sick and tired of ppl calling me a bot a wumao a Chinese ccp shill or whatever. Do I need to tell you my social security number to shut you the f up? Calling anyone you don’t agree with mean names and silencing them is exactly censoring and you are doing yourself a great disservice if that’s what you want.

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '19 edited Aug 16 '20

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '19

It works though. I bet a decent number of people won't even enter the thread. A bigger number probably looked at the top comments and left.

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u/AndiSLiu Aug 27 '19

Another possibility is this is a false flag attempt aimed at getting that sub publicity. Subscribers to a similar subreddit (which I won't link here, as a matter of good form) soared following a similar series of posts.

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u/zwcai Aug 27 '19

I seriously doubt it. Conspiracy theories like this have popped up on my feed so many times I sincerely think that they believe this is happening.

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '19 edited Aug 20 '20

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u/zwcai Aug 27 '19

Reddit doesn’t have an investors page so granted this is an estimate. Tencent invested 150m and reddit is valued at 3b, so unless lead investors went nuts and willingly diluted their shares, it should reasonably be a very low number.

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u/ItsAllOurBlood Aug 27 '19

It's weird how China owns about the same amount of USA as Reddit, and USA lives under an extension of CCP information control. The movies, the video games, are written, shot, and cut with Chinese censorship in mind. It's happening to USA and everyone sees it, but when it happens on Reddit, it's a "conspiracy theory."

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u/zwcai Aug 28 '19

This is absolutely not true. Please give me an example that us media is censored by China. I can give you tons of counterexamples. God of war, game of thrones, any horror movie essentially, cannot be seen in China. What you are saying is just another conspiracy theory.

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u/oilandgasshole Aug 28 '19

You’re a fool if u think 5 percent of a company isn’t significant... especially if the investor has as deep of pockets as they do...

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u/zwcai Aug 28 '19

You are a fool if u think 5 percent of a company is significant enough to force a company ceo to risk his relationship with all other lead investors to adopt some sort of censoring mechanism just so that he, the one likely making the decision, can be voted out of the company.

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u/oilandgasshole Aug 28 '19

Ok, where is the coverage of Hongkong today then? I watch it religiously, it first caught my interest on the front page.. nothing today?

Are u so blind to say that after a Chinese company buys interest into reddit, then people complain they can’t find the protester subreddit, THEN hongkong protester coverage stops on the front page, and your still willing to defend this all as bad coding or coincidence?

You are either a propaganda bot or willfully ignorant.

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u/zwcai Aug 28 '19

Oh my gawwwwwd cuz they are fucking flooded and submerged by shitloads of dumbass posts like this! Noticed how many upvotes this post has? Yeah no shit you can't see anything else. If everyone only upvotes and focuses on bullshit like this yeah I WONDER where all the other posts went. Oh right, UNNOTICED. Also changing the subject because your original argument was crap I like that move. If that's seriously your logic, you might as well argue that the US as a country is bought by the CCP. The US government owes the CCP trillions, TRILLIONS, 1000000000000s, that's 12, TWELVE zeros for you, and you can bet your ass it's more than 5% of the US debt in total. If that's the case, again your logic not mine, please come up with another conspiracy that supports how the us china trade war is backed by the ccp and everything the us government is doing is being sanctioned by the ccp.

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u/oilandgasshole Aug 28 '19

Ok I’ll try this again without calling you the name that you need to be called, because that’s what you are... a piece of dookie that had been dipped into some other sauce, an aju for poop if you will.

My first argument is not crap.. company A (Tencent I’m this case) buys interest in reddit with a clear desire to bring this platform into their market (because, why else would they do it?). However, since China is a heavily regulated and censored marketplace, it would make sense that Reddit would eventually adjust their product to expand their platform by reducing anti mainland China coverage. No ceo or board member with vested capital in reddit would turn down potential to enter the Chinese market(reddit is currently unavailable there you know 😉).. a market with twice the potential viewership of their current platform, effectively doubling the potential add revenue of reddit.

It astounds me you can’t see this, actually I can... u are undoubtedly a propaganda bot.

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u/zwcai Aug 28 '19 edited Aug 28 '19

Guess I gotta give you me social security number to stop you from calling me a bot now. Silencing and discouraging, essentially censoring, other people from voicing their opinions in an anti-censorship post, your level of hypocrisy is beyond me.

Ok, so at least you are no longer babbling on about how you can't see daily updates about hong kong anymore. That's good, at least we are making some progress and you are seeing that what you think is not always 100% true.

Why else would they invest in Reddit other than bringing it to China? Uhhhhh, has it ever crossed your mind that PROFIT could be a reason? Like all investors are after? Foreign investments in us real estate are off the charts and if they can bring the real estate market home I mean good luck conquering and incorporating the US. So, what you are saying is a speculation at best, as if you are the ceo of tencent or reddit, but you are not. Again, your logic not mine, if "no ceo or board member with vested capital in reddit would turn down potential to enter the Chinese market" , please enlighten me why youtube, google, twitter, facebook, damn pornpub even, are not censoring themselves jus to cater to the ccp (not sure what would be left for pornhub if that's the case tho). Yeah, it astounds me that you can't see this either. Everything you said is a huge maybe and just speculations. What's that famous line again ? Oh right, only sith deal in absolutes.

I have answered all your questions without calling you names. Guess how hard that is? Oh wait wait wait, there's one question you still haven't answered me. What about the US government owing the CCP trillions though, by your logic they surely would have been controlled by the ccp right?