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Tencent Has Access To China's National Citizen Database (venturebeat.com)
The Chinese government doesn't want children playing games for several hours every day. It said as much in a public notice from August. Now, Tencent is going along with that recommendation. The world's biggest gaming company started pushing out its new "real name identity system" (RNIS) across China on November 1, according to market intelligence firm Niko Partners. From a report: This program aims to mitigate concerns about addiction and myopia in children. It limits people 12 and younger to an hour of gaming per day. And it forces every player to register themselves in the game with their real name and government ID. Of course, this program isn't new. Tencent introduced a version of its RNIS in May 2017. That also required players to register their age, but it was easy to fool. In September, however, the publisher revised and strengthened the program. And the government also stepped in to help. Regulators are providing Tencent with access to a massive list of every person who lives in China.
Google already has all your personal information.
Think of the lessons kids will learn as they work out how to get more gaming time in. It's great!
Useful to be reminded of China's system of government from time to time.
As you may have heard China now has a social karma score. If your score is too low things get taken away like say air travel. You can see this coming a mile away: your internet access will be taken away if you speak unkindly of party officials.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Set your dns to 1.1.1.1 and you are there
that the chinese government has access to tencent's gamer databases (and logs and player histories and chats and everything else). the government just helps them verify user submitted personal info.
gotta close that gamer loophole that allows potentially uncensored communications with the outside world.
the first 4 posts are imbeciles. Please mod them down
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
in the good ole US of A.
and why are they posting on Slashdot. Can we please start automatically giving russian IP addresses a -1 Karma?
Maybe someone on here has an idea on this - Ring of Elysium originally shipped with some bizarre libraries that Tencent admitted were for verifying computers, etc. They claim they were removed. Now we find out Tencent is mapping Chinese users to games. Most of Tencent's games are entirely free.
Is Tencent paying for their servers and hosting with revenue from scanning Ring player's computer and mapping it into the Chinese gov't system for the Chinese gov't? Anyone know exactly what is going on here?
I guess the next step is to tatoo that Government ID onto the slave-citizen's forehead.
Maybe we should be doing something about China other than slobbering all over them?
Is he (she?) related to 50 Cent?
I'm on the deep left, but this bullshit makes me furious. Sure, we need a thriving unbiased and objective press, but Fox, CNN, MSNBC, etc. ARE NOT INDEPENDENT. There is massive control by the state and wealthy globalists. They're here to convince you exploitation is in your best interest and the hyper wealthy deserve to keep their piles of gold. Next he goes on to correlate free press with globalism. That we need the press to placate our worries about the undeniable, inevitable personal insecurity globalism will bring us. He is creating the narrative that to accept one, you accept the other. Both surprisingly honest and bullshit at the same time. Just say one point and please move on to the next.
caused by games?? As if it didn't predate phones or popular access to videogames?
Did you get your Flu shot?
China is our future. Are you ready?
This is much more comprehensive though. No-fly lists are based on a narrow focus of national security. Social Credit Scores are much broader, with people losing access to air travel and other "luxuries" for overdue debts, playing too many video games, associating with other people who have low social credit scores, etc.
Maybe gamers might like RNIS for its deterrence against the odd gamer that enjoys ruining it for everyone. A side effect of having no anonymity in the games, there should much less bullying and griefing, as people get called out for it IRL. Having a totalitarian regime in control of the good behavior isn't that good, but having it in control of the bad behavior isn't that bad. A kid's playground always needs parents nearby to keep the kids playing friendly.