"Expect them to be successful," the one below it says.Īnother leaked presentation from November 2018, published by Vice, was allegedly created by Tencent as an outline or guidebook for how online games would have to observe Chinese law. "Expect hundreds of people working on reverse engineering the code," reads a bullet point on one slide. The internal documents also list "security" measures or warnings about what might happen when working with a Chinese partner.
All the Chinese game servers would have to be located in China, the document says, citing Chinese law. The documents state that all the Chinese players' PII - or personally identifiable information - would have to "remain in China" and could not cross the Great Firewall. The company in the presentation appears to describe how it would need to adapt to Chinese rules and weighs whether to partner with Tencent or NetEase, a Chinese tech and game company. Some of these documents were from a 2017 Roblox-made slideshow presentation, according to Vice.
To release the game, Roblox had partnered with the massive entertainment conglomerate Tencent, which was one of two companies listed as potential partners in the documents reviewed by Vice. China has long contentiously claimed Taiwan as part of its territory.Īlthough Roblox did eventually create a mobile Chinese version of its platform (Roblox China, also known as LuoBoLeSi) in July last year, the game shuttered indefinitely in December. Numerous US-based and international companies in the past have adapted their websites to fit Chinese rules, including airlines like Delta, which faced backlash from China after it listed self-governing Taiwan as its own country. Known as one of the most censorious countries in the world, China has a long history of deleting content online and suppressing users who speak out. These documents described how Roblox would need to mold its platform to fit China's extensive content laws. Documents from 2017 included in that hack appeared to show a plan to adapt a version of the platform in China, according to Vice, which first reported on the files. It often indicates a user profile.Ī mysterious hacking operation allegedly stole and published confidential internet documents from Roblox on a forum this month, as part of a ploy to extort the massively popular gaming company. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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