• mestari@lemmy.world
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    Tencent, a Chinese company is a major owner of Epic. Westerners simply hate Chinese owned tech due to political reasons. Huawei and especially TikTok are other examples.

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      Yes, purely political reasons, there is no other reason to be wary of proprietary chinese software.

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        Of course there are other concerns but politics is the main one. There’s little reason to think for example Samsung, Instagram or even Steam are any more safer than the previously mentioned Chinese owned alternatives. They all collect, store and sell every bit of data they possibly can benefit from.

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      Mass surveillance and flagrant human rights violations are now “”““political reasons.””“” In other news, nothing happened at Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989.

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      I hate Tiktok because it’s spyware. Show me the source code to prove me wrong.

      I hate Epic because they abandoned the Unreal and Unreal Tournament series, delisted from any store(including single player games) and turned off the Master Server preventing official multiplayer.

      I hate AAA game developers because of what the MBAs did to milk every cent of out of their customers.