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.
That’s horrible. I should Google for more information so I can avoid using companies involved with the military.
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
Tik Tok is the only tencent company I know if that’s been labeled a national security risk.
They also have a stake in all these companies…
Legaue of legends
Epic games
Ubisoft
From soft
Activision blizzard
WeChat
Activision Blizzard
I think the MSFT buyout eliminated their stake in ABK?
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.
I was just listing things I know tecenet had a holding in… Like everyone else…
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.
As opposed to all of our previous presidents, who refused to be bought by corporate corruption? LoL.
Lol pretty much every American company should be added to a similar list given how deep they are in the pockets of CIA, etc
Cool whataboutism, this article is about a Chinese company and China, not about America or its mil companies.
It’s not like it’s an insult to say Tencent is involved with the Chinese military, why are you so defensive? Do you think you’re sharing unknown info? I think we’re all quite aware of the US MIC.
Do you seriously believe China and every other country doesn’t keep similar lists already? This is basic ass shit.
Every time anything about China is posted someone like you comes running to tell us all “b-b-but America too!!!” as if that changes a damn thing in regards to the discussion topic at hand.
Pointing out hypocrisy is not whataboutism. Whataboutism is when you bring up a separate topic as a criticism to distract from the original topic. For example, if you make fun of my cooking and I bring up your drawing skills in response, that’s whataboutism. If you suck at cooking and yet bring up me sucking at cooking, that’s just pointing fingers and trying to paint that as a negative for someone else when you possess the same deficiency.
Weird. I can’t see the .ml after your name. Must be a Lemmy bug.
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They’re getting downvoted for an unrelated comment not because they don’t believe America has companies that contribute to their mil industrial complex.
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Aint we got tea companies that make war machines here?
hence why this article is not a big deal or dig at China in any way lmao
Why does everything need to be whataboutism’d to America. Yes we also have companies that work with our military, who gives a fuck? This article is simply pointing out that a big Chinese company with ties to lots of social media (Reddit for example) is also mil adjacent.
It’s just a fact, not commentary on China that then makes the US hypocritical.
Why are you making whataboutist comments unrelated to the article? Every fucking country has companies that work with their military, that’s not what the article is about.
I’m just pointing it out bro, nothing more bro, just mentioning it bro, nothing wrong with constantly running negative stories about China bro, not manufacturing anything bro.
I don’t know which company you’re referring to, but I think it’s pretty damn likely that China also classifies them as a military company too. Shit, most western companies are banned in China.
I fail to see the hypocrisy that you appear to be implying.
I only meant to say that it is quite normal for private interprises to dabble in military application
That’s when they become the Outerprise.
