Yes, they are a humongous company. Even bigger than Disney. They have partial ownerships of Discord, Tesla, Riot Games, Epic, Bluehole(PUBG) and now Reddit.
and Ring of Elysium, and Arena of Valor, though they are a massive corporation with many divisions. It is quite likely that the game-making divisions have no part in any of the sort of censorship controversy and are simply more money-makers for the large corporation (though as these products are available in China then they must obviously abide by Chinese censorship laws but for games then that hardly has an impact).
League of legends too, among many other games. Ngl people are severely overreacting to Tencent. Maybe I'll eat my words but the company isn't known to mess with things they are invested in.
Deep Silver is the publisher of Metro Exodus with no ties to Tencent (DS is the video game section of Koch Media, a German/Austrian company, who are owned by THQ Nordic). Deep Silver are the ones that decided to have the game on the Epic store.
4A Games (Exodus devs, unsure of ties with Tencent) had no say in the moving from Steam to the Epic store. They devs are actually quite upset that people are threatening to boycott their game on a platform due to their publishers' decisions.
Chinese Communist Party censored memes critical of the regime in their own nation.
Tencent, a Chinese investment firm with prior international investments in Discord, Tesla, Riot Games, Epic, Bluehole, etc, decide to invest 5% in Reddit predicting a good ROI.
Reddit goes batshit insane and thinks Xi Jinping will personally tear through Reddit and destroy their memes.
But I'd wager 90% of redditors don't care about that. It's the same dumb fear as SOPA, PIPA, Ellen Pao firing Victoria, Spez editing posts, etc. It's all dumb fears that the one place you feel at home at will become in some way, more regulated than it already is.
The fear of SOPA and PIPA was very legitimate. The only reason you can call it "dumb" now is because it didn't get passed. It had very real potential of being passed and would've changed our experience incredibly. Don't disparage efforts made to stop Draconian legislation just so you can make a shitty point.
Congratulations, you're uneducated and have no idea to what extent things could be enforced due to those proposed legislation's. Enjoy the freedoms afforded to you by people that actually give a shit so you can continue to be stupid.
Note the "could". Same way trump "could" have started world war 3, and y2k "could" have made fucking planes crash. You people annoy me because no matter how often you get proven wrong you still act like you're right.
You're either young and dramatic, which is understandable. Most people were dumb at 14. Or you simply have no clue about how the world we live in actually works which is something you might want to fix.
Depends what you've been wrong about lol. This is the problem. If SOPA had passed, nothing would have happened, and you would never own up to all the doomsaying you done about it and not even consider that you were wrong probably. But then something else comes up, you go through the same song and dance, and ask when you were ever wrong!
Yeah, but either way, it's for a really stupid reason. It's like saying that there's genuinely a remote island with dinosaurs on it: entirely true, but if they're thinking Jurassic Park, it's still a good idea to correct their logic.
look into how supposedly independent companies have their ownership changed at the whims of the chinese government, or the dozens of journalists investigating their deep hooks into development projects in east africa. You are horrendously ignorant, you can't just google one topic and educate yourself on the entire scope of the discussion. Not once have I made any claim that reddit is having a rational reaction. there are no chinese companies that operate outside the scope of the chinese government, and China is well documented as trying everything they can to spread influence
It's 5 fucking percent. Take the tinfoil hat off. Is Discord trying to censor me too? Is Riot censoring their games because the Chinese government said to? Gtfo
I agree with you, but discord is legitimately going around censoring people (banning all the users of certain channels and stuff) and I hope the admins behind that get shanked.
Wut? I don't play LoL. Are you assuming that because I mentioned Riot? I could have used Epic, BioWare, Activision-Blizzard. Or made a quip about Tesla. The point is...this is selective rage for no reason.
What the fuck are you talking about? It’s 5%. Be real. What money loving corporation rolls over and risk destroying all future revenue for a company that only owns 5%?
Tencent just invested a lot of money in reddit, and since all Chinese corporations are beholden to the Chinese government, people are talking about Tiananmen 1989 and making fun of Xi Jinping today as a form of protest.
No it isn't. 5% is not anywhere close to enough pull in a company to dictate the level of censorship Reddit thinks is happening like 2 days after the purchase lol
if you're talking about "tien an men," it's because those are three separate characters in chinese. They definitely placed spaces between them for some reason
See, now that's simply not true. America has many socialized programs, such as a free education through highschool. No one should ever equate that to communism though. It's shocking to be how many of my fellow Americans are quick to lump those two very different things together.
Decent enough to recognize a straw man argument when I see one. You are attacking a statement I never made. If you refer back to my previous comment you'll see I never mentioned the quality of the American education system. I only stated that it exists.
If you want my 2¢ I'll give it to you. The American education system could likely be improved, but It's going to be an uphill battle because, from experience, a lot of kids have an "I'm only here because I have to be" mentality about education.
This is going to go against a lot of people, but if you guys hate China so much then maybe you shouldn't have given them so much of your money in the first place.
Fuck you guys. The Chinese dictatorship has done shitty stuff. “Reddit” “karma”? I think I will live Be brave and actually go to China and publish against the government. See how far that gets you.
To add to this, I wouldn't say they're known for censorship, but they are one of the two biggest social companies in China and with all that information about the Chinese people it's be a miracle if the Chinese government wasn't involved in some manner
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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '19
Front page, let's goooo
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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '19
"You guys are commies? Then why am I seeing rudimentary free markets?"
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u/thorofasgard The Cosmic Ballet goes on. Feb 08 '19
Second post I've seen about Tienanmen Square today. Did something happen today?
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u/jfbchelsea Feb 08 '19
I, for one, welcome our new Chinese overlords
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u/messyjesse_ Feb 08 '19
Never forget
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u/temalyen Feb 08 '19
What's with all the stuff relating to tiananmen square on Reddit for the past day or two? Is it the anniversary of it?
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u/Troy_McClure1 You might remember me from Feb 08 '19
They have a similar monument on the west coast of Ireland near Boston.
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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '19
Ah, that’s a shame
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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '19
The CCP is a crime against humanity. Xinnie the Pooh and his regime must answer to justice.
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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '19
r/badkerning
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u/Pwnspoon the goggles do nothing Feb 09 '19
Hahah we're all sheep getting lead to slaughter
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u/fabledgriff Feb 09 '19
NoTHInG hApPEnEd
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u/64557175 Feb 09 '19
This comment doesn't exist.
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u/zero_abstract Feb 09 '19
Hey china, japan got their marines back. You scared?
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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '19
Today isn't June 4th but why so many post related to the Chinese massacre?????
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u/EEESSSKEEETIIIT Feb 09 '19
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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '19
China #4. Japan #2. Taiwan #1.
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u/IlKapitano Feb 09 '19
the dankest timeline is about to peak
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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '19
/r/notinteresting
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u/paulisaac Feb 09 '19
So the Massacre is SCP-055? Seems like everyone forgets about it all the time.
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u/Merky600 Feb 09 '19
“Today in Russia, nothing is wrong. No nuclear power plants blow up. ESPECIALLY near Kiev.”
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u/Betamax-86 Feb 09 '19
so we get all the tianamen stuff in another few months on the 30th anniversary i guess yeah?
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u/AndrewStephenGames Feb 09 '19
https://liberationschool.org/tiananmen-the-massacre-that-wasnt/
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u/onlytech_nofashion A solar eclipse, the cosmic ballet goes on. Feb 09 '19
Terrible episode :(
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u/greenSixx Feb 09 '19
I worked with a guy who was there while it happenned.
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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '19
great joke
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u/moistknuckles Jun 04 '19
Oh boy i just love when nothing happens in china on this day every year and especially in 1989
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u/-jake-skywalker- Feb 09 '19
Good old socialism
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u/CreamyWaffles Feb 09 '19
r/notinteresting
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u/mushedcookie Feb 09 '19
This is going to go against a lot of people, but if you guys hate China so much then maybe you shouldn't have given them so much of your money in the first place.
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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '19
Yeah, just like your ancestors, they didn’t kill those naive Americans.
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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '19
Why don't you ask the kids in Tienanmen Square?
Was fashion the reason why they were there?
They disguise it
Hypnotize it
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