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  If you are asking me which ethical frameworks Tencent was in, I will definitely say with no doubt that it is teleological, in egoism method, since they are more focus on self-interest, and the self-interesting is playing a major role in their motivation and action when it   comes to decision making(Sturgeon, 2020). However, they are not ethical egoism, since what they did was hurting the other small companies and its users’ interest, in a result, Tencent was not an Ethical Egoism.   I think what they can improve is they should stop using the shady tactics and stole the ideas from other small companies. Since you may recall the Tencent total equity is around half trillion in China and Tencent is definitely not a small company that want to get inspirit and idea from other Titan of the industry. It is not a chime to make the easy money from the blooming game marketing, but it is very unethical to bully other competitors by using shady strategies. I am not expecting Tencent will become a
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Other people's reponse

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  “Tencent is always plagiarizing, but never get a lawsuit.”(Unknow, 2010) Here is a video create by a Youtuber, and she covered some unethical actions Tencent did on its early years as well: Tencent: One of the Shadiest Gaming Tech Giants Most of the comments from bloggers and editorialist about Tencent are critical, especially the comments from other game developer and coding programmer. “Although Tencent has become one of the biggest IT companies and doing all kinds of business in all field, the way it defeats its competitors is still called plagiarism” (Bo, 2010). In 2003, Lianzhong Game platform’s develop noticed Tencent launched a “twin” game platform which is very similar to Lianzhong. The CEO of Lianzhong, Mr. Bao realized the threaten, however, instead of sending Tencent a lawsuit, he was trying to negotiate with the current manager in Tencent and ask for collaboration. However, Bao’s kindness does not turn in to good outcome, the current chief officer of Tencent refuse to m
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Company's response

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  There are several reasons that lead Tencent made unethical decisions. Firstly, social issue. As you may recall, in my previous blog, I mentioned in the past few decades, the most of digital content can be downloaded for free, which means in China, the people’s conscious of protect intellectual property rights is relatively weak, compare to western countries. According to U.S Patent Statistic chart calendar in 2010, the total utility patent applications are around 240 thousands   (Chart, 2020) , while in China, it is only around 80 thousands   (Unknown, 2020) , by compare the numbers above, we can see the numbers in China is only one third of the numbers in US. Above all we can see the conscious of people in china protected their intellectual property right is very weak. We know from previous blog that Tencent has bullying other small companies and stolen their ideas. For example, back to 2004, QQ game stolen the platform design from its competitor Lianzhong World platform, which de
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Tencent Company Background

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Tencent is a Chinese public company founded in 1998, the founder, CEO and the Chairman of Tencent is Huateng Ma, as known as Pony Ma. He is doing business in creating communication application.
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Tencent Ethical Dilemma

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  Hi, Welcome to my Blog! In this mini case study, I am going to analysis the Ethical Dilemma behind the China's biggest game and communication application company: Plagiarism in many video games. In China, Tencent has dominated over 50% of mobile gaming market, while the NetEase Game on the second place only have around 15% of market share.
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