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Tencent says it's not a Chinese military company and is willing to sue the US Department of Defense if it isn't removed from a blacklist (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 265 points 2 months ago (22 children)

Here's a list of websites China bans:

  • Google
  • YouTube
  • Facebook
  • Yahoo
  • Wikipedia
  • Marxists Internet Archive
  • Reddit
  • Fandom
  • Netflix
  • Zoom
  • Blogspot
  • Bing
  • Instagram
  • WhatsApp
  • Twitch
  • Roblox
  • Steam Store
  • Steam Community
  • Spotify
  • Messenger
  • X
  • LinkedIn
  • Skype
  • Tumblr
  • Pinterest
  • SoundCloud
  • Signal Private Messenger
  • Dropbox
  • Pornhub
  • XVideos
  • Medium
  • Dailymotion
  • BBC
  • The New York Times
  • Vimeo
  • The Guardian
  • SlideShare
  • Discord
  • DeviantArt
  • The Washington Post
  • Nico Video
  • Archive.org (Internet Archive)
  • Bloomberg
  • Flickr
  • Wretch
  • HuffPost
  • The Wall Street Journal
  • DuckDuckGo
  • Scratch
  • Reuters
  • NBC News -TIME
  • Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
  • Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
  • Bandcamp
  • Technorati
  • Archive of Our Own
  • Viber
  • South China Morning Post
  • Plurk
  • The Economist
  • ABC
  • Voice of America
  • Radio Free Asia
  • NBC
  • PBworks
  • The Epoch Times
  • The Epoch Times (Chinese edition)
  • HBO
  • WION
  • Hong Kong Free Press
  • Apple Daily
  • TikTok
  • ChatGPT
  • Rockstar Games
  • GitHub
  • Hugging Face
  • Flipkart
  • Zomato
  • Clubhouse
  • Swiggy
  • Truth Social
  • National Weather Service
  • Kanzhongguo (English)
  • Kanzhongguo (Chinese)
  • Microsoft Copilot
  • Telegram
  • Voice of America (Chinese)
  • Teacher Li Is Not Your Teacher (by a famous anti-CCP Twitter poster)
[–] coaxil@lemm.ee 45 points 2 months ago (1 children)

National weather service???

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)

(tin foil hat)

The government... They control the weather information... Satellites... Weather machines... Snorts cocaine we can't trust them we need to trust our eyes...

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago

I'm sorry but you know too much. Come with me.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 41 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Basically any site that they don't have full control over/can't buy favor from and has the ability to spread info they dislike, even if it's something as simple as 2+2=4".

And if you're looking for someone outside of China to blame for their internet shield, Cisco was responsible for helping them set it up.

[–] wax@feddit.nu 9 points 2 months ago

And then Huawei allegedly stole Cisco's IP? Ah, the irony

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Xhamster slides in undetected...

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 36 points 2 months ago

That's more freedom than Texas

[–] im_at_work_mom@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

.ml Intensifies

[–] fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee 14 points 2 months ago

I came into this thread just to downvote their lies.

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[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Uh ... why SCMP? Isn't that a party-friendly newspaper anyway?

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

SCMP is critical of China, but they do soften the blow

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[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 175 points 2 months ago (34 children)

Of course it’s not a military company, it’s an espionage company.

[–] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 67 points 2 months ago (1 children)

See?? Totally different!

[–] MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 months ago

Normally, espionage can collaborate with other branches of government, apart from the military.

[–] SolacefromSilence@fedia.io 13 points 2 months ago

Next you'll tell me all those cheap Chinese routers would allow our very telecommunications infrastructure to be hacked unless we're using end-to-end encryption.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/27/chinese-hackers-telco-access-00196082

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[–] AngryRobot@lemmy.world 78 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Every fucking Chinese company is required to be an arm of their government and provide them with any information they request. It's not even a question, they are an arm of the Chinese government. They can get fucked

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 79 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Same goes for US companies.

Have we learned nothing from Snowden?

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (24 children)

Yeah it is similar, but not the same (at least not yet).

China is a one-party state, and the government has control over private enterprise. If you are a Chinese company, the PRC ultimately has control of it, and that means the Chinese military has access to anything you have access to, if they want it.

This is on a different level than anything Snowden released.

Edit: For people who think I mean "party" like US political parties: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-party_state#Current_one-party_states

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

This is on a different level than anything Snowden released.

Snowden released the fact that the major internet companies in the US literally have full time CIA staff and locked rooms with servers

Why is this on a different level? Is it because they're ASIANS?

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That Snowden releasing the facts and it being brought up in courts, state congress, and federal congress as well as national news all revolved around it being illegal in the USA.

In the PRC it's only illegal to talk about it.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

That Snowden releasing the facts and it being brought up in courts, state congress, and federal congress as well as national news all revolved around it being illegal in the USA.

Did it stop?

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[–] CharmOffensive@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The long and short of it is even leftie Americans have internalised American exceptionalism, even if they aren't cognisant of it. And the right are, well... Racist and don't want to admit it.

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[–] Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

One government is actively committing genocide against subsets of their population I’d say it’s a pretty big fucking difference.

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[–] roadrunnerr@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Both countries are acting in their own interests. Simple as that.

[–] themurphy@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Imagine if that meant in the people's best interest.

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[–] randon31415@lemmy.world 43 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sues. Lawyers do discovery. Tencent refuses. Court fines Tencent in contempt, rules in favor of the government. Tencent tries to bribe Trump with something.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Discovery process, you say?

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[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 32 points 2 months ago

Oh my, the US military might have to change the name of the list to, "Foreign companies we're blacklisting for classified reasons". How terrible.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I agree with the US DoD. The large Chinese corporations are owned by CCP members and former PLA officers. Contain them until the PRC implodes.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not to mention I'm pretty sure all of their Chinese office buildings are literally in Military owned and operated land.

It would be like Google HQ being in the middle of a US military base.

EDIT: Although I do admit adjacent the Googleplex building there is a Department of Defense building like 10 minutes drive, near the airfield, but it's probably there because NASA operates on the airfield.

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[–] _sideffect@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

Lmao, poor little babies

[–] Juigi@lemm.ee 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Isn't every chinese company part of CCP

[–] Kerred@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

"all right Tencent, make a game where you play as Tank man defending the innocent at Tiannanmen Square please"

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[–] SynonymousStoat@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Cool, can we make the divest from American game studios now?

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

The DoD will pay its fines 500#s at a time.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 7 points 2 months ago

Thus proving that Tencent is either stupid or is insulting our intelligence.

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