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[KaNesDeath]

I think you might be confusing him with me.

Oh no. He has taken some hardline Epic Games positions in replies to me over the years.

 

[Madmick]

China Is Infiltrating Kids’ Video Games With Propaganda and Spyware

While many are rightfully concerned about the growing influence of video-based social media platform TikTok and the Chinese government’s ability to harvest incredible amounts of user data from it, China’s largest social media and video game studio, Tencent, has quietly been acquiring a...

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n 2020, the online community highlighted the spyware-like anti-cheat software used in Valorant. The so-called anti-cheat software would launch upon starting your computer—regardless of whether the user opened the game or not—and would monitor all user activity, logging which programs were used. This software broke from the industry standard and was viewed as intrusion into the user’s privacy.

After all, this is the same company that hid a data breach of millions of accounts from its users. Even more alarming, in March of 2019, it was revealed that over 300 million user messages sent on Tencent platforms and games were stored on a database used by the Chinese Police.

https://chinatechthreat.com/tiktok-2-0-tencents-wechat-and-epic-games-present-the-same-threats-as-tiktok-but-without-the-scrutiny-yet/

Today we present Tencent, a Chinese digital media and entertainment behemoth that presents similar security risks as TikTok, but has mostly flown under the radar as a threat to the United States.

It shouldn’t any longer.

Tencent is China’s largest tech company and one of the largest companies in the world based on market capitalization—ranking as the 25th most valuable company in the world as of January 2024, by one measure. It has ownership stakes in hundreds of entertainment, media, and communications products and companies throughout the world, including in the U.S.

As it has done with the entire Chinese tech sector, the Chinese Communist Party has pushed its influence deep into Tencent. According to a former CIA senior official, Tencent received seed funding from the Chinese Ministry of State Security in its founding era (around 1998), in hopes that the company would help build the “Great Firewall” designed to cut off free and open internet access in China. One Chinese technology website claims that there are more than 7,000 Chinese Communist Party members working at Tencent, a full 23% of its workforce. In October 2023, China took a “golden share” in a Tencent subsidiary. According to Reuters, this was evidence of China “stepping up its control over its tech sector.”

Two Epic Games directors appointed by Tencent resign, US Justice Department says​

WASHINGTON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Two directors of Epic Games who had been appointed by Chinese gaming and social media firm Tencent Holdings (0700.HK), opens new tab resigned from the board of the Fortnite video game maker after the U.S. Justice Department's antitrust division expressed concerns, the department said on Wednesday...

Tencent owns a minority interest in Epic Games. It is also the parent company of a gaming competitor to Epic, Riot Games, the Justice Department said in a statement.

"Tencent also decided to amend its shareholder agreement with Epic to relinquish its unilateral right to appoint directors or observers to the Epic board in the future," the department said.

It said the two directors' positions on both the Epic and Tencent boards violated Section 8 of the Clayton Act, which prohibits directors and officers from serving simultaneously on the boards of competitors, subject to limited exceptions.

 

[Bornstarch]

I don't think they were pretending to be liberals. Watch the first podcast of Joe Rogan and Zukerberg. That was within the Biden administration when Zuckerberg outed them for putting pressure on him to bury the Hunter Biden laptop scandal and censoring opposition to the Covid Vaccine

 

[KaNesDeath]

China Is Infiltrating Kids’ Video Games With Propaganda and Spyware

While many are rightfully concerned about the growing influence of video-based social media platform TikTok and the Chinese government’s ability to harvest incredible amounts of user data from it, China’s largest social media and video game studio, Tencent, has quietly been acquiring a...

www.heritage.org

https://chinatechthreat.com/tiktok-2-0-tencents-wechat-and-epic-games-present-the-same-threats-as-tiktok-but-without-the-scrutiny-yet/

Two Epic Games directors appointed by Tencent resign, US Justice Department says​

None of this is new information. In fact these are topics i initiated in the arcade forum over the past month and years.

Problem is you are using guilt by association. Implementing Epic Games at this level means the same must be applied to Sony and Microsoft.