Le totally fun fact: Did you know that the reason Discord can run without any ads and being free-to-use isn't because of nitro? It can't live off of just that. It generated $130 million during 2020 (on paper, at least) but it's impossible to have a multi billion dollar company off of that. Its main source of profit is actually from investors, mainly from a Chinese company named Tencent.
Since Tencent is also funded by the CCP and gets a pass from its anti-monopolization laws, Tencent also uses its sway over Discord into giving it information, consequently giving CCP information from Discord.
Tencent was also directly involved with the start of Discord and its continued growth.
Meaning all your information on Discord is being given to the Chinese government.
If you don’t believe Discord would do this, see Discord's privacy policy Section 5.2: How we share your information. With our vendors.
"We may share information with vendors we hire to carry out specific work for us."
"We may also share limited information with advertising platforms to help us reach people that we think will like our product and to measure the performance of our ads shown on those platforms. We do this to help bring more users to Discord, and provide only the information required to facilitate these services. This may include information like the fact that you installed our app or registered to use Discord."
Also see Discord's privacy policy Section 5.5: With our related companies.
"We may share information with our related companies, including parents, affiliates, subsidiaries and other companies under common control and ownership."
Skeletor will return with more fun facts next week.
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