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Admins please edit title for clarity: China to ban online gaming with, chatting in-game with foreigners outside Great Firewall. Right now the title is very mi
by verst 7y ago
Admins please edit title for clarity:
China to ban online gaming with, chatting in-game with foreigners outside Great Firewall.
Right now the title is very misleading and I was concerned that even on WeChat I wouldn't be able to talk to my Chinese friends.
- AaronFriel 7y agoBanning chat between Chinese and non-Chinese on WeChat only seems like a couple small steps down the slope, so I wouldn't be so sure your concern was misplaced.
- 9nGQluzmnq3M 7y agoWeChat is already very heavily moderated and surveilled. The CCP's issue here is that gaming platforms hosted overseas are not.
- nerfhammer 7y agoit would be a big step, because it would make it much harder to do business with Chinese companies
- ur-whale 7y agoYou're using wechat? Very brave of you.
- geowwy 7y agoWhy?
- ur-whale 7y agoI naively assumed the amount of spying going on on the platform was common knowledge, my bad. And sure, no reason not to use it, as long as you're 100% certain you're never going to utter anything on the platform that isn't 100% aligned with the CCP party line.
- threatofrain 7y agoThere should be local models which can alert a citizen if they’re about to say anything remotely government related.
- verst 7y agoI'm well aware, but chatting with friends about daily life hardly is of interest to any spies
- ur-whale 7y agoYou're vastly underestimating what modern AI can guess about you given enough "chatting with friends" data volume. And we're not talking about spies here, we're talking about a centralized, tyrannical government building a detailed personality profile of you to make sure you are and will remain a well behaved sheep. Google "chinese social score" if you want to know more.