Other people's reponse

 

“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 meet Bao. “Unlike other massively online game, the rule of online chess and card games are fixed, which the code is not complicated enough. Also the most of the players are also QQ users, therefore, my platform is very easy to be copy and plagiarism by big company such as Tencent”, said by Bao (Xu, 2010).

This is the cover of China Computer world Journal, Volumn 28, the Penguin on here is the icon of QQ, which is an social and communication aplication's icon developed by Tencent

There are also other comments on Tencent’s other unethical actions, the leak of user’s information. Since the most featured function of WeChat is WeChat pay,  in China, the most commonly used payment method are WeChat Pay and Alipay(Developed by Alibaba), in other word, WeChat Pay and AliPay has oligopoly and evenly split the China online convenient payment market share, since we can hardly find the store which will accept other online payment include PayPal, Apple pay or Samsung pay. Since in order to make a successful payment or transaction, WeChat required user to input password or scan face, and nowadays, people with the phone has the face recognize function will setting the verification via face scanning. However, based on the report, Tencent will not protect the face photos scanned through the phone, instead, Tencent will provide this information to the police in some cases (Cook, 2019), without inform the user of this action. Since there is a lack conscious of protect the private information, so this unethical action has not been judged by a lot of media in domestic.

My option on Tencent bullying and plagiarism other small companies is the higher level must involve with the software application developing decision, since every successful big company with huge market share cannot operate without the control of the higher level. However, since when the management team receive the approval from the development team that involved other companies design idea, the only reason they did not deny the approval is they see the profit behind this action.

 

References

Cook, S. (2019, March 28). Worried about Huawei? Take a closer look at Tencent. Retrieved from The Japan times: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/03/28/commentary/world-commentary/worried-huawei-take-closer-look-tencent/

Xu, L. (2010, July 24). 计算机世界：“狗日的”腾讯 搅局者还是终结者. Retrieved from Sina Technology: http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/2010-07-24/20434467150.shtml

 Bo. (2010, July 28). GFW认证. Retrieved from 自由还是自宫，这是个问题: http://tingpan.blogspot.com/2010/07/tencent-king-of-plagiarism.html