Discussion Forum: Access Data and Government Requests

discussion forum: Amnesty said Tencent was the only firm one that had not stated it would refuse government requests to access data, according to The Guardian. Yet last week the company expanded its already voluminous investments in non-Chinese technology companies by ploughing a reported 150m 116m into the discussion forum and aggregator Reddit, which has nearly 600 million users. In the heady, pre-Cambridge Analytica days, Facebook came first with a score of 73, and the Chinese gaming and investment company Tencent came last with 0. Tencent joins a long and diverse line of investors in the platform including the rapper Snoop Dogg, the actor Jared Leto and the Silicon Valley billionaire and Donald Trump supporter Peter Thiel. Many pointed out the ultimate irony that Reddit is, itself, currently banned in China. On the Reddit discussion threads known as subreddits that focus on China, along with the reliable smattering of jokes and political polemics, users expressed concern that certain subreddits contained discussions of the best ways to avoid the country's stringent censorship laws. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.