Tencent causes PoE to be at serious risk for it's US players, GGG what's your take on this?

"President <REDACTED> on Thursday issued executive orders banning U.S. transactions with Chinese tech firms Tencent and ByteDance."

"effective in 45 days"

color me spooked.

then again if you play for free theres no transactions ;)

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DiabloImmoral wrote:

Lots of very valuable companies sell small shares to China to be allowed access to the region. There's zero risk to video games, barring WWIII out of nowhere. There's too much money involved.

Cell phone apps are a lot more dangerous to your privacy than video games anyways. A dozen companies probably have full logs of every single text message you've sent/received on your phone over the past 5 years, and that information is going to be a lot more personal than "WTB 2ex for 157 chaos each."

You are almost right on all except there is no private ownership in China. Everything is owned by the government (see here 8 families: Feng, Zhang, Wu, Xi, Hu Jintao,Jiang, etc...) with small controlled stakes from private citizens. For example, it is the same family that controls the Healthcare and prison system.

We are on the same course than before WW I with the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente except it appears it is now USA-Europe-Russia-China that are pulling on each of their sides and each economies imploding except Russia.

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DiggaTron wrote:

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Aim_Deep wrote:

US was fine with China Industry when China was just a cheap labor paradise for our companies but now that china companies can compete with our Fortune 500s too is like a war. Thats whats going on with all these bans and takeovers like Huawei and Tictok. That said I don't think a game played by a couple million Americans is in the US governments sights. Nothing to worry about. We go after big threats to our industry not a niche game.

In a bid to move discussion along, while the Huawei ban was in my opinion a prickly pair i ultimately believed, and especially so in hindsight, it was justified. Im open to discussing it.

And id nearly agree that the Fortune 500 thing contributed to the motives, but it omits that India acted first, and its motives are clear as crystal.

I've seen no proof about huawei unlike american firms who spies on countries for decades with their software/hardware honeypots. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/11/crypto-ag-cia-bnd-germany-intelligence-report

It seems more like projection add in huawei is the best 5G tech dethroning the ciscos and such it's ripe for attack.

West can't beat China they work way too hard like machines. They live to work we work to play. So they will be on top one day with or without bans. India has no chance so it's only choice is to be a US vassal for protection.

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WoT_Seanchan wrote:

"Pompeo Urges Cutting Ties With Chinese Tech Companies, Apps"

Seems like good advice. There's a good chance that relations with China will continue to worsen.

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superbomb1967 wrote:

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DreadLordAvatar wrote:

Potus needs to be thrown in jail.

Now this movement I can get behind.

+1

Ah, kids inserting their nose into the grown-up conversation, ain't that a classic.

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tinko92 wrote:

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superbomb1967 wrote:

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DreadLordAvatar wrote:

Potus needs to be thrown in jail.

Now this movement I can get behind.

+1

Ah, kids inserting their nose into the grown-up conversation, ain't that a classic.

Yeah, kids shouldnt ever have a say in anything, right? Calm yourself and go have some chill. You assuming everyone not worshippin someone somehow makes them not worthy of conversation shows why theirs some truth to what they say. Only response youll get, I just assume you are trolling.

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tinko92 wrote:

Ah, kids inserting their nose into the grown-up conversation, ain't that a classic.

I've always been 'politically open minded', and usually respect different views regarding political orientation. But lately, I have to admit that (in my mind), Trump supporters move closer and closer to the same box as anti-vaxxers and flat-earthers. Sadly, religious people are headed the same way too.

I'm turning into a bitter, old man, I think. Sorry for my outburst. Your comment just glowed with suppression techniques, arrogance and ignorance. Of course, if you're trolling, I bit. Don't worry, I'll show myself out.

move to EU?

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Hasunic wrote:

It's funny you are scared of being in a Chinese db but not fb etc.

I'm not on Facebook either though. And you say "etc", but nowhere else in America is even half as scummy as Facebook. Google does keep a pretty thorough index but doesn't sell its data (it uses the data for targeted advertisements) and refuses to share its data with the CCP.