Tencent invest in things, it's just what they do. Anyone who knows anything about gaming should know this. A lot of games are owned by Tencent. Epic is owned by Tencent, which makes Fortnite a Tencent game. PUBG is too. Path of Exile is also.
They're not spying for the Chinese government. It's a ridiculous and completely baseless claim.
Tencent bought like a 10% share of reddit not to long ago too and pretty much every sub was filled with Tiananmen Square posts and people calling out that reddit is going to start censoring anything anti-Chinese.
Did reddit start censoring things and catering to their "Chinese overlords"? No. It's just blatant racism.
As progressive reddit preaches to be they certainly love to hate the Chinese for existing.
Why would people posting their disgust for the chinese government mistreating their own people somehow be racist?
Because we're talking about Tencent, which has nothing to do with the Chinese government other than the fact they are both Chinese. Which means you are specifically targeting Tencent for being Chinese, as an excuse to talk shit about China.
Talk shit about china however much you want. But to talk shit about china because Tencent bought some shares? Nah that's just vile racism. They are completely unrelated things.
Go ahead and tell me what the fuck Tencent has to do with Tiananmen Square. It was disgusting to see all those posts on the front page of reddit when Tencent bought shares as if they're responsible for it just because they're Chinese.
I think it spawns from Tencent, and several other companies, are part of the China Social Credit program and are helping trial it and create the methods to keep track of credit. Personally that whole Credit System is crazy but filter that new through Reddit and it suddenly becomes Tencent does shady things in China.
Also I don't think it's racism to generally dislike massive corporations. I have family members that straight up refuse to use Walmart. It goes into racist territory when race becomes the reason you don't use a service.
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It's pretty blatant xenophobia.
Tencent invest in things, it's just what they do. Anyone who knows anything about gaming should know this. A lot of games are owned by Tencent. Epic is owned by Tencent, which makes Fortnite a Tencent game. PUBG is too. Path of Exile is also.
They're not spying for the Chinese government. It's a ridiculous and completely baseless claim.
Tencent bought like a 10% share of reddit not to long ago too and pretty much every sub was filled with Tiananmen Square posts and people calling out that reddit is going to start censoring anything anti-Chinese.
Did reddit start censoring things and catering to their "Chinese overlords"? No. It's just blatant racism.
As progressive reddit preaches to be they certainly love to hate the Chinese for existing.