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China WANTS to disable all mass groupings as they endanger the government and political stability.

bakuninsbart 7y ago
Who is China in that claim? Of course the chinese central government has stake in big tech (and the economy at large), but simply claiming that "China wants this" is extremely reductionist. Tencent was privately founded and funded, and is internationally owned. There are most certainly close ties to the central government, and they won't go against core demands of the PCR. But they are regularly picking fights and mending the borders of what is considered appropriate. There is no official rule against having bigger group chat sizes, in fact it exists on other social media. - It might have been an inofficial directive from some ministry, it might have other reasons. From what I can spot, there's not a whole lot of users complaining about the chat restrictions anyway.
- johnmarcus 7y ago
  Lol. Not a whole lot of complaints in the country with family labor camps. Yeah, totally organic I'm sure.
  - yorwba 7y ago
    Looking at your other comments, you seem to focus a lot on Hong Kong. If you were to spend some time in Mainland China, you'd discover that people still love to complain when they're unhappy with something. It usually just doesn't reach the scale required to make it into English-language news. If you have to rely on what other people bother to translate and republish, you're never going to understand a country as well as someone who speaks the local language. Fortunately, literacy in Cantonese automatically grants a passable understanding of written Mandarin, so even if you only care about Hong Kong, you could still gain some insight into the mainland. Assuming you care enough to learn a language at all, of course.
    - johnmarcus 7y ago
      no, i have friends in both China and Hong Kong. China suppresses peoples complaints, very well known amongst the Chinese even.

Who is China in that claim? Of course the chinese central government has stake in big tech (and the economy at large), but simply claiming that "China wants this" is extremely reductionist. Tencent was privately founded and funded, and is internationally owned. There are most certainly close ties to the central government, and they won't go against core demands of the PCR. But they are regularly picking fights and mending the borders of what is considered appropriate. There is no official rule against having bigger group chat sizes, in fact it exists on other social media. - It might have been an inofficial directive from some ministry, it might have other reasons. From what I can spot, there's not a whole lot of users complaining about the chat restrictions anyway.

johnmarcus 7y ago
Lol. Not a whole lot of complaints in the country with family labor camps. Yeah, totally organic I'm sure.
- yorwba 7y ago
  Looking at your other comments, you seem to focus a lot on Hong Kong. If you were to spend some time in Mainland China, you'd discover that people still love to complain when they're unhappy with something. It usually just doesn't reach the scale required to make it into English-language news. If you have to rely on what other people bother to translate and republish, you're never going to understand a country as well as someone who speaks the local language. Fortunately, literacy in Cantonese automatically grants a passable understanding of written Mandarin, so even if you only care about Hong Kong, you could still gain some insight into the mainland. Assuming you care enough to learn a language at all, of course.
  - johnmarcus 7y ago
    no, i have friends in both China and Hong Kong. China suppresses peoples complaints, very well known amongst the Chinese even.