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xcziel:
helendamnationx:
aethernightmare:
If you’ve been posting in favor of BLM for the past couple of weeks, but intend to play Pokemon Unite despite knowing that it is being designed and published by Tencent, you are the definition of a hypocrite.
Tencent built the Sesame Credit app that is preparing to become mandatory across mainland China. To briefly define what it is, it’s a program that influences your real-world financial credit score based on your social media interactions. Like and share acceptable propaganda, your credit score will increase. Like or share something the government doesn’t like, your credit score decreases. If you’re even so much as friends with someone who likes or shares something the government dislikes, it affects your score too. Thereby limiting who people are willing to associate with, and what they’re willing to learn.
It also affects citizens based on individual purchases. If you buy something like video games, or non-approved books, or anything that’s not a “necessity”, this can lower your credit score as well, since the app is targeted to flag you as a “non-ideal citizen”. (Kind of ironic then that they program video games too, with micro-transactions, but I guess a lot of companies will have double standards for profit these days).
Tencent is also the company that encouraged Blizzard to suppress players from speaking out about freeing Hong Kong. A revolution that is still ongoing, where Hong Kong citizens are fighting to secure their democratic freedom, and where protesters are being tortured or even executed.
While this is going on, also keep in mind that there are other protests going on, because the mainland government in northwest China is rounding up and keeping approximately 1.8 Uyghur Muslims in re-education (concentration) camps, so that they may gain access to more energy resources and trading routes.
Tencent is one of the main companies behind keeping atrocities like this silenced.
PLEASE DO NOT SUPPORT POKEMON UNITE. PLEASE DO NOT SUPPORT TENCENT.
As a rule, I’m against language like “You’re a hypocrite is you enjoy this piece of media,” and I do not believe “voting with your wallet” is all that effective as a tactic - there is no ethical consumption under capitalism. That said, this appears to be true, and horrifying - but a handful of people who were on the fence about Pokémon Unite deciding not to play it after all is not going to make a difference to that! Public outcry might, and is more likely to effect Tencent, as an international business, than the Chinese government, who are the ones actually behind this dystopian monstrosity.
This has very, very few news sources, and that’s what needs to change. Here’s one from Wired. Here’s one from NH Global Partners. Here’s one from Business Insider.
reblogging this version for the source links, but please check through the responses in the notes as well
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xcziel:
helendamnationx:
aethernightmare:
If you’ve been posting in favor of BLM for the past couple of weeks, but intend to play Pokemon Unite despite knowing that it is being designed and published by Tencent, you are the definition of a hypocrite.
Tencent built the Sesame Credit app that is preparing to become mandatory across mainland China. To briefly define what it is, it’s a program that influences your real-world financial credit score based on your social media interactions. Like and share acceptable propaganda, your credit score will increase. Like or share something the government doesn’t like, your credit score decreases. If you’re even so much as friends with someone who likes or shares something the government dislikes, it affects your score too. Thereby limiting who people are willing to associate with, and what they’re willing to learn.
It also affects citizens based on individual purchases. If you buy something like video games, or non-approved books, or anything that’s not a “necessity”, this can lower your credit score as well, since the app is targeted to flag you as a “non-ideal citizen”. (Kind of ironic then that they program video games too, with micro-transactions, but I guess a lot of companies will have double standards for profit these days).
Tencent is also the company that encouraged Blizzard to suppress players from speaking out about freeing Hong Kong. A revolution that is still ongoing, where Hong Kong citizens are fighting to secure their democratic freedom, and where protesters are being tortured or even executed.
While this is going on, also keep in mind that there are other protests going on, because the mainland government in northwest China is rounding up and keeping approximately 1.8 Uyghur Muslims in re-education (concentration) camps, so that they may gain access to more energy resources and trading routes.
Tencent is one of the main companies behind keeping atrocities like this silenced.
PLEASE DO NOT SUPPORT POKEMON UNITE. PLEASE DO NOT SUPPORT TENCENT.
As a rule, I’m against language like “You’re a hypocrite is you enjoy this piece of media,” and I do not believe “voting with your wallet” is all that effective as a tactic - there is no ethical consumption under capitalism. That said, this appears to be true, and horrifying - but a handful of people who were on the fence about Pokémon Unite deciding not to play it after all is not going to make a difference to that! Public outcry might, and is more likely to effect Tencent, as an international business, than the Chinese government, who are the ones actually behind this dystopian monstrosity.
This has very, very few news sources, and that’s what needs to change. Here’s one from Wired. Here’s one from NH Global Partners. Here’s one from Business Insider.
reblogging this version for the source links, but please check through the responses in the notes as well
(Your picture was not posted)
