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

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• WaterSword@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Does this mean league of legends is a weapon

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  • Gloria@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Weapon of Mass Distraction.

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    • WaterSword@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Psychological Warfare for sure

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  • Enkers@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I mean, there’s always been speculation that Vanguard is spyware. There’s absolutely no need or justification for always-on cheat detection.

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    • zewm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      What speculation? It’s literally spyware. You are giving it full low level access to your processor.

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  • Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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.

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  • CaptKoala@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    A weapon against sanity, yes.

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  • RagnarokOnline@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Chemical weapon, maybe.

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  • Wooki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Weapon of mass-debation

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• Viri4thus@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Can’t win capitalism? Fret not, everything is national security and we can throw the rules of capitalism out the window :)

  And then the west is surprised at the confused look of the global south when Ursula and Biden mention “Rules based order”…

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I mean it’s not like China was open and allowed competition from western companies.

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    • assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      But it us kind of insulting when America did incredible violence to the global south to get them to open their markets only throw it all out the window.

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    • NatakuNox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      This just in, “Wealthy people everywhere suck ass! More at 11.”

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  • Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    China is state capitalism. Capitalism isn’t losing. The West is losing because China is using state funds to buy up successful Western companies, and as their new owner, has the ability to force them to do China’s bidding.

    Meanwhile the West is completely barred from buying a majority stake in any successful Chinese company and even if it could would not be taking it over on behalf of serving the state.

    The problem is China plays by its own rules and those rules are heavily stacked against every other nation. That was fine when they were making junk for Walmart; it’s not so fine when it’s highly sophisticated electronics and software (that can do whatever China wants it to in the West) … and to add injury to insult it’s often based on stolen Western technology (since us idiots decided to put the factories that manufacturer the designs there).

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  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Nobody really cares about the rules. While I don’t like capitalism, unfortunately it also starts a new era of imperialism, where the strong ruthlessly conquers the weak, see Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, and China-Taiwan.

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    • Viri4thus@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      One of those is not like the others…

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• homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  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

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  • OCATMBBL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’m really not sure which one you mean, because they own interest in a ton of companies.

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    • WhoLooksHere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Tik Tok is what they’re referring to

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• Freefall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  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.

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  • surph_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    As opposed to all of our previous presidents, who refused to be bought by corporate corruption? LoL.

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    • Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I don’t think they’re making that claim, just that Trump is easy to manipulate and buy off for anyone with the means. Everything is negotiable with him.

      My own thought is that the wealthy corpos absolutely can and do purchase US politicians, but some of them have some philosophical guardrails that preclude stepping over certain issues. That number, however, seems to be shrinking the longer we have politicians who are allowed to get fat off of the people.

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    • sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      But we beat big pharma…

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• sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Aint we got tea companies that make war machines here?

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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.

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    • sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I only meant to say that it is quite normal for private interprises to dabble in military application

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  • einkorn@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Such as?

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