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[689.00 --> 690.00] Wow.
[690.00 --> 691.00] Apparently, you're on your own for two minutes.
[691.00 --> 692.00] Again?
[692.00 --> 693.00] Why don't you talk about...
[693.00 --> 695.00] Oh, Microsoft officially kills off...
[695.00 --> 696.00] I'm not talking...
[696.00 --> 697.00] No.
[697.00 --> 698.00] You don't wanna talk about Microsoft killing off stuff?
[698.00 --> 699.00] This is your baby...
[699.00 --> 700.00] What?
[700.00 --> 702.00] I'm talking about WeChat and the Chinese government.
[702.00 --> 703.00] WeChat and the Chinese government.
[703.00 --> 704.00] Don't get political.
[704.00 --> 705.00] Nope, nope.
[705.00 --> 706.00] I don't need to get political.
[706.00 --> 707.00] You put this in.
[707.00 --> 708.00] You...
[708.00 --> 711.00] We have the best non-political podcast.
[711.00 --> 712.00] The best.
[712.00 --> 713.00] I called up my friends.
[713.00 --> 714.00] They told me we had the...
[714.00 --> 715.00] It's huge.
[715.00 --> 716.00] It was the best.
[716.00 --> 717.00] It's terrific.
[717.00 --> 718.00] The best.
[718.00 --> 719.00] The greatest.
[719.00 --> 720.00] Tremendous.
[720.00 --> 721.00] Huge political content.
[721.00 --> 724.00] Earlier this week, WeChat confirmed...
[724.00 --> 726.00] WeChat is a giant app in China.
[726.00 --> 729.00] It's like WhatsApp a bit, but it's more of a super app.
[729.00 --> 731.00] You can buy stuff on it.
[731.00 --> 734.00] I think it has mapping and a marketplace and stuff like that.
[734.00 --> 736.00] Huge in China.
[736.00 --> 739.00] WeChat this week confirmed what everyone was already thinking.
[739.00 --> 747.00] And that is that it actually sends a lot of its users' personal data right to the ruling regime, the Chinese government.
[747.00 --> 752.00] So reading from the page here, which I didn't do last week, to awful effect.
[752.00 --> 755.00] WeChat has over 662 million users.
[755.00 --> 762.00] And in a recent privacy statement confirmed that virtually all of the private user information will be disclosed to the Chinese authorities.
[762.00 --> 765.00] This became known during a recent update to the app.
[765.00 --> 771.00] Users were required to accept the update, or to accept the privacy policy in order to get the update.
[771.00 --> 776.00] And in that policy, it basically says all your base are belong to us.
[776.00 --> 778.00] Now there's a couple scary parts to this.
[778.00 --> 779.00] Hey Max, you sit down.
[779.00 --> 780.00] Yeah, where's Linus?
[780.00 --> 781.00] Get in here.
[781.00 --> 782.00] I'm back.
[782.00 --> 783.00] No, we don't want you.
[783.00 --> 784.00] You know what?
[784.00 --> 785.00] It's the post Linus era.
[785.00 --> 786.00] We don't want you. Let's just get rid of James.
[786.00 --> 787.00] Okay, let's see it.
[787.00 --> 788.00] Okay, no, we're strapped.
[788.00 --> 789.00] Don't do this to me.
[789.00 --> 790.00] No, no, we're not going to do it yet.
[790.00 --> 791.00] We're not going to do it.
[791.00 --> 792.00] How dare you?
[792.00 --> 798.00] I didn't agree with the comments last week that said Linus was a harsh, mean boss, but I'm on your side now.
[798.00 --> 801.00] James or Max?
[801.00 --> 802.00] Okay.
[802.00 --> 803.00] So it's...
[803.00 --> 804.00] James, I'm out of here.
[804.00 --> 805.00] I'm out of here.
[808.00 --> 810.00] You're lucky it's not 545.
[812.00 --> 813.00] Okay.
[815.00 --> 818.00] Okay, let's go ahead and create this poll here.
[818.00 --> 819.00] Okay.
[819.00 --> 820.00] Let me just say one thing about this WeChat stuff.
[820.00 --> 821.00] I'm dropping this in Twitch chat.
[821.00 --> 822.00] I'm dropping this in Twitch chat.
[822.00 --> 823.00] I'm dropping this in Twitch chat.
[823.00 --> 824.00] Okay, guys, guys, hold on.
[824.00 --> 828.00] You guys gotta hit the straw poll for me here, okay?
[828.00 --> 829.00] Straw poll.
[829.00 --> 830.00] Straw poll!
[830.00 --> 831.00] Okay, talk about the WeChat thing.
[831.00 --> 832.00] I can't compete with a real girl.
[832.00 --> 834.00] Talk about the WeChat thing.
[836.00 --> 837.00] So flaccid.
[837.00 --> 840.00] Here's the weird thing about this.
[840.00 --> 854.00] Beijing, aka the Chinese government, has announced that their regulations will mandate that WeChat users will be liable and prosecuted for any information posted in the group that the government considers objectionable.
[854.00 --> 864.00] I.e., if you send a message to your buddy about something the government does not agree with, and that gets read by the authorities, you can just go to jail.
[864.00 --> 867.00] That's pretty dope.
[867.00 --> 868.00] Hey, have you heard about Tiananmen Square?
[868.00 --> 873.00] I just, like, stumbled across this website that I shouldn't have been on and learned about it.
[873.00 --> 876.00] If the authorities find that out, you're just...
[876.00 --> 878.00] Black Helicopter is going to jail.
[878.00 --> 882.00] I mean, theoretically, it could happen.
[882.00 --> 884.00] It's a little tinfoil hattie, but is it?
[884.00 --> 896.00] I'm not guaranteeing that it would happen, but I think that to say that this is anything other than deeply disturbing would be objectively incorrect.
[896.00 --> 900.00] It may not happen, but if the language is vague, then it could happen, and that's what's scary.
[900.00 --> 901.00] Yep.
[901.00 --> 904.00] Alright, so let's go ahead and have a look at the results here.
[904.00 --> 905.00] Oh, no.
[905.00 --> 906.00] So let's screen share.
[906.00 --> 907.00] Wow.
[907.00 --> 910.00] 76% max, 24% Linus.
[910.00 --> 913.00] So James gets zero votes.
[913.00 --> 914.00] What the heck?
[914.00 --> 915.00] Zero votes whatsoever.