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It won't take long at this rate until it's completely normal for the software of big companies deciding what you can and can't do at all times during the day.
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Tencent: "show me your face or I won't let you pay my game", me: "fine I won't play your game then" Government: "show me your face or else[1]", me: "r-right away sir" [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence
So you expect people to live without any entertainment? Just work eat and sleep I guess.
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So you expect people to live without any entertainment? Just work eat and sleep I guess.
Tencent has a monopoly on entertainment?
It’s a horrible invasion of privacy and personal liberty, but hey, it isn’t the government doing it and you agreed to this when you accepted the terms of service. /s
Tencent: "show me your face or I won't let you pay my game", me: "fine I won't play your game then" Government: "show me your face or else[1]", me: "r-right away sir" [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence
My inclination is to assume this is compelled by the Chinese state.
Microsofts decision to require cameras in windows 11 will enable initiatives like this.
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Tencent has a monopoly on entertainment?
No but you are apparently oke with entertainment requiring face scans to access. If Tencent can do it it won't be long untill every large publisher does it.
Perhaps a third choice, that also doesn't require resorting interfering with other people's private choices, with legal threats that emanate from the state's monopoly on violence, is to lobby to allocate a portion of public funds to subsidizing game publishers that respect privacy.
In any case, even a modest portion of the population choosing to avoid privacy-compromising game publishers would establish a market for privacy-preserving games. So this is really a matter of consumers educating themselves and making responsible choices.
The real problem here is likely the state stepping in to force all game publishers who attain Tencent's market reach to institute these kinds of measures.
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Tencent has a monopoly on entertainment?
It would be quite hard to be a gamer and completely avoid playing anything that Tencent doesn't at least partly own.
It’s a horrible invasion of privacy and personal liberty, but hey, it isn’t the government doing it and you agreed to this when you accepted the terms of service. /s
Tencent: "show me your face or I won't let you pay my game", me: "fine I won't play your game then" Government: "show me your face or else[1]", me: "r-right away sir" [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence