Would Call of Duty be the American equivalent?
Tencent is an investor there too
Calling Tencent a "web and gaming giant" is really deceiving here.
It's one of the biggest tech conglomerates in the world. Tencent invest into literally everything: games, social networks, entertainments, cloud computing, finance, AI, other investments... Tencent owns WeChat, Tencent Cloud, Tencent Healthcare just to name a few and helps CCP with surveilance and censorship through these ownings (tbf they don't really have a choice, they're based in China)
100% they are involved in military too so this classification is very much justified.
Don't they also have lots of stakes in other companies.
Yeah that's what the comment said
Epic Games for one.
And Reddit
Discord
That's horrible. I should Google for more information so I can avoid using companies involved with the military.
I wonder what this means for 50 Cent?
He's on thin ice.
They gonna force a sale of League of Legends now?
Tencent owns 11% of Reddit...
Do Fortnite next.
Does this mean league of legends is a weapon
I mean it installs a rootkit on your computer that gives them full control over everything including what you type, hear, and see as well as the ability to record what you've previously typed and said. It could at any moment also fully disable your computer (as well as millions of other computers) rendering them useless.
Just because they haven't used it that way, don't assume they can't or won't.
Weapon of Mass Distraction.
Psychological Warfare for sure
I mean, there's always been speculation that Vanguard is spyware. There's absolutely no need or justification for always-on cheat detection.
What speculation? It’s literally spyware. You are giving it full low level access to your processor.
Gosh I feel like I've heard Tencent has a stake in some other company that isn't mentioned here yet.
what was it . . . hmmmmm
I'm really not sure which one you mean, because they own interest in a ton of companies.
Tik Tok is what they're referring to
I was thinking of reddit
We have a puppet coming into the presidency. China will have all the inroads to our government they care to pay for. Tencent and Co. will be a non-issue.
Why is the list not just every Chinese company? do they not know how state capitalism works?
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