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Re:Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces t... by baybal2 on Thursday February 27, 2020 @03:48PM (#22437658)
FYI, Reddit's major investors include one big Internet company from Shenzhen

Advance publications is also having huge exposure to China through Condenast's business in China

Re:Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces t... by jedberg on Thursday February 27, 2020 @04:02PM (#22437832)
This is fearmongering. Tencent owns a small part of Reddit, has no board seat, and has no influence. They can’t “pull their money” so they would have no leverage to make threats.

And by the way do you know who is the majority owner of Tencent? Naspers, a South African media company.

Re:Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces t... by adventured on Thursday February 27, 2020 @04:10PM (#22437918)
> And by the way do you know who is the majority owner of Tencent? Naspers, a South African media company

Naspers does not own a majority position in Tencent. They own closer to ~31% of the company. A large position, however that means very little given it's a Chinese juggernaut (see: Yahoo vs China in the Alibaba & Alipay spats).

https://www.investopedia.com/news/nasper-set-earn-10b-tencen...

Re:Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces t... by rdtsc on Thursday February 27, 2020 @03:53PM (#22437716)
Oh interesting. I thought it was a Conde Nast company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit says it's headquartered in San Francisco and owned by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Publications which is headquartered in NYC. Where do the Chinese come into play?
Re:Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces t... by dave5104 on Thursday February 27, 2020 @03:55PM (#22437752)
Tencent invested in reddit's series D financing round in 2019. Can't figure out what % they "own", but OP implying full ownership is not entirely correct.

Edit: and looks like OP edited their comment to clarify.

Re:Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces t... by baybal2 on Thursday February 27, 2020 @04:14PM (#22437968)
Condenast has huge business in China — unique for being a foreign company in the media business there.

One doesn't get such concessions in China for just nothing.

Re:Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces t... by ceejayoz on Thursday February 27, 2020 @03:50PM (#22437682)
Re:Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces t... by dave5104 on Thursday February 27, 2020 @03:54PM (#22437738)
"Owned" is a bit generous. But Tencent has a financial investment in reddit.

> In February 2019, Chinese company Tencent invested $150 million into Reddit as part of its Series D.

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit

Re:Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces t... by swebs on Thursday February 27, 2020 @03:52PM (#22437707)
Which company is that? Wikipedia says they're independent with the majority shareholder being a New York company called Advance Publications
Re:Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces t... by 34679 on Thursday February 27, 2020 @03:55PM (#22437756)
https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/11/18216134/reddit-tencent-i...

"Reddit gets a $150 million investment from Tencent and users are posting memes to mock the deal"

Re:Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces t... by ceejayoz on Thursday February 27, 2020 @04:23PM (#22438069)
Half of one funding round and "owned" are substantially different things.
Re:Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces t... by baybal2 on Thursday February 27, 2020 @07:11PM (#22439378)
Condenast has a huge PR, advertising, and media business in China, which would've been a near impossible task even for a domestic Chinese company, let alone foreign, or American one on top of that.

The propaganda ministry razed the media landscape to the ground over the last 5 years. Even completely apolitical companies like publishers of professional literature, science textbooks, photo journals, and children books got a boot.

The state has also been said to forcefully breaking up big media groups, denying mergers in between ad/pr/media companies.

Seeing Condenast thriving in China, knowing how things there are now, is very suspicious.