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Alphane Moon@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago

US adds web and gaming giant Tencent to list of Chinese military companies

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US adds web and gaming giant Tencent to list of Chinese military companies

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Alphane Moon@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago
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This could be the start of a saga to rival TikTok’s troubles, and embroil Tesla and Microsoft
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    I’m really not sure which one you mean, because they own interest in a ton of companies.

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      Tik Tok is what they’re referring to

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        I was thinking of reddit

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          Tik Tok is the only tencent company I know if that’s been labeled a national security risk.

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            They also have a stake in all these companies…

            Legaue of legends

            Epic games

            Ubisoft

            From soft

            Activision blizzard

            WeChat

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              Funcom (Conan games and an upcoming Dune game) and Grinding Gear Games (Path of Exile) as well.

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                Wtf they own 100% shares of GGG? https://app.companiesoffice.govt.nz/companies/app/ui/pages/companies/1887410/shareholdings

                Well idk about supporting POE2 now. Or should I not care?

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                  Removed by mod

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                    Lots of video games contain root kits labeled as “anti-cheat” that run at ring 0 of your computer, even more access than the OS. Yes they take info, and it has access to everything.

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              Activision Blizzard

              I think the MSFT buyout eliminated their stake in ABK?

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              Fromsoft is unfortunate, but I honestly don’t use any of the rest.

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              I believe discord is also owned by tencent

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                Tencent likely has a sizeable stake, but is unlikely to hold a majority stake of Discord.

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                  My mistake the own a large share, enough to have sway

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                    Tencent probably has a stake in a lot of companies.

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              Again, non of those have been legally banned in the US.

              I’m not saying those companies don’t exist? Just answering the question of who the top commenter was referring to, which in my opinion is Tik Tok because it’s the only one being legally banned.

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                I was just listing things I know tecenet had a holding in… Like everyone else…

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              LoL is not a company, the creator and owner of it is Riot Games.

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                And the owner of Riot Games is Tencent, that and WeChat stick out from the rest of the list because they are owned and developed by Tencent instead of just Tencent owning stock

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                  I was just listing everything from the top of my head of things I knew they had a holding in… I mean it is a holdings company or whatever the term is… So it’s what they do… Buy all these stakes in random companies for profit… But I would say Blackrock is probably worse fuck blackrock

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