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Re:Worried about Huawei? Take a closer look at Tencent on Friday March 29, 2019 @07:07AM (#19520585)
> Tencent certainly complies with Chinese laws in china, but can you blame it? Wouldn't you comply with the law of your country?

Since you've put yourself out here as CTO of a Tencent owned company... I've heard that in China, Fortnite requires a Chinese "real ID" to play. Aka China knows exactly who you are at all times.

They also "punish" you for playing more than 3 hours at a time if you're under 18.

And I can't prove, but assume they also record all conversations (otherwise... What is point of using real id??)

This doesn't sound like something Epic games would want to be associated with if Tencent wasn't a major shareholder. Are you saying you've had no pressure at all to implement similar features and make your games "more friendly to the Chinese market"?

To me it feels just like China buying up slivers of hollywood so nothing critical of the regime makes the big screen