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Can't speak for the parent, but I suspect they're referring to two things: 1) A good chunk of Discord is owned by Tencent, a big Chinese conglomerate 2) Disco

Can't speak for the parent, but I suspect they're referring to two things: 1) A good chunk of Discord is owned by Tencent, a big Chinese conglomerate 2) Discord decrypts and then re-encrypts content on its servers, allegedly for efficiency reasons I think for a small startup that is making games/software which are non-controversial, Discord might still be a fine choice. For anything requiring assurances of enterprise-grade security, I'd avoid it.

judge2020 4y ago
> 1) A good chunk of Discord is owned by Tencent, a big Chinese conglomerate The most credible source from this is this article[0], but since it's VC we have no idea what the ownership looks like. For all we know Tencent owns 5% or less of Discord, especially given two companies are listed before them in the article: > The round was led by Greenoaks Capital with participation from Firstmark, Tencent, IVP, Index Ventures and Technology Opportunity Partners. In general Tencent has more pull in other big gaming companies[1], which is more concerning imo. 0: https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/21/gaming-chat-startup-discord-raises-150m-surpassing-2b-valuation/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/21/gaming-chat-startup-discor... 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21190677 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21190677