Call me crazy and I hate the PRC but Google would be way worse than Tencent. The last thing we need is more media getting swallowed into the big tech conglomerates. Yeah it could be argued Tencent is one too but it's a bit different.
At least Tencent controlling it is more obvious. Naive people think Google is an American company we can trust more. They forgot that it was Google that taught China how to curate search for cultural harmony.
Call me crazy and I hate the PRC but Google would be way worse than Tencent. The last thing we need is more media getting swallowed into the big tech conglomerates. Yeah it could be argued Tencent is one too but it's a bit different.
At least Tencent controlling it is more obvious. Naive people think Google is an American company we can trust more. They forgot that it was Google that taught China how to curate search for cultural harmony.
Selling to Google is basically just handing it and all the audience it has to the matriarchy.