“In the past, most key trades we observed were between legitimate customers. However, worldwide fraud networks have recently shifted to using CS:GO keys to liquidate their gains,” it said. “At this point, nearly all key purchases that end up being traded or sold on the marketplace are believed to be fraud-sourced. As a result we have decided that newly purchased keys will not be tradeable or marketable.”
FullMetalPancake
Brian Ashcraft
11/26/19 4:13pm
I don’t feel like we’re talking about how he lent the character to his friend, who then was *trying to sell it back to him for $55,000* . Either this is a crazy money laundering scheme (or prostitution ring), or the friend is up there as Worst Friend Ever.
EA's great at that.
Buy succesful IP, turn it into MTX. Squeeze the juice hard.
Fire the employee, terminate the company.
Rinse, Repeat.
Corporate greed is nothing new.
It’s the global lawlessness and financial corruption that is destroying the world and true economic growth (as enjoying the fruits of your labor).
Example; gambling is heavily regulated especially when kids is involved. Look at how EA lied to UK parliament and rebrand loot boxes as 'surprise mechanics' (without legal punishment).
I love Americans, but right now we have two corrupt superpowers, both with a fake economy.
This is what global lawlessness looks like and failure of keynesian economics:
source; https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/debt-deficits-path-mmt
This guy does a decent video pointing out how silly their claims are at about 11minutes.
I have seen his videos, kowtowing to CCP. This is another echo chamber (whatever intentional or not). China has both a light and dark side, I'm not anti-Chinese. CCP control and/or influence Chinese media effectively.
China has two constitutions, one for CCP and one for the country.
CCP enforces 'online rumors' law where they can put any Chinese/non-CCP into three years in jail. They abuse this law to silence Chinese criticism and intimidate.
Such blatant hypocrisy. State media can do fake news/propaganda/rumors all day long but when Chinese citizens post "rumors" they can get 3 years in prisons.
Interesting joke. Kinda agree with China on that one.
I respect your opinion.
IMO, the Danes should apologize as soon as CCP apologize for covering up the Wuhan coronavirus.
Danes have jumped to the defence of Jyllands-Posten on Twitter, while Chinese people have shared social-media memes recalling Denmark's surrender to Nazi Germany in World War Two. That surrender took place within four hours, the tweets say.
mkvgtired
I think the virus is hurting the Chinese people more. And the CCP facilitated the spread by initially covering it up. They were totally fine with the deaths of additional Chinese people to save face. It's hard to take their feigned anger over Chinese people's "feelings" when they were proactively ensuring countless more contract a miserable and painful disease, some of them dying from it.
KoKansei
They were totally fine with the deaths of additional Chinese people to save face
This right here is the real crux of the issue, but even this idea will itself be squelched from Weibo as fast as the government censors can manage. They think they are above anything, including and up to, reality.
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For the 152,000 users who have seen the poll, only 12 percent are from Denmark, while a full 51 percent are from China, according to the poll data.
It turns out that the poll has been shared on Chinese social media along with calls to vote in the poll.
Online polls and political controversy are just a bad combination.
This is according to Yevgeniy Golovchenko, a PhD fellow at the University of Copenhagen, where he researches disinformation and influence campaigns on social media.
"It doesn't tell us anything about attitudes, and it's super easy to manipulate them," he says.
China's 50 Cent Brigade, sometimes called the 50 Cent Party, are essential professional trolls. It's their job to trawl through websites, both inside and outside of China, and monitor what the public is saying about the regime and draw the conversation away from anything critical of China by instead criticizing the United States, Western involvement in international affairs, or by pointing out the flaws of democracy. China Uncensored gets plenty of these guys. Ironic since Youtube, along with Facebook and Twitter are actually banned in China. So it's not just Sina Webio these guys are on. And since China employs 2 million of Internet monitors, more than the 1.5 million the People's Liberation Army, this is clearly a new form of cyber warfare. The weapons are hacking or virus, but a careful and systematic propaganda push. And Snoopybabe.
Below are some early science data on new Coronavirus (maybe RO3 or higher) and why countries go into lockdown to preventing the spread. RO science data show early containment is very important.
This is China's biological 'Chernobyl' (Wuhan) as the virus is way more contagious than seasonal flu (which is R0 1.28). That’s why being proactive is the best cure.
Just to emphasize, this is not a new Spanish flu but can temporary cripple our global infrastructure.
What happens when local supermarkets no longer have food and water? Medical supplies?
Something as simple as toilet paper may no longer be available for weeks.
We should all hope health professionals can contain this virus.
If not, it’s time to stockpile what you need for 2-4 weeks.
Note: An ALERT is only issued when events cause me to take personal actions. I am preparing for the possibility of a global pandemic that will arrive in my own country. You should, too. This is the sort of on-the-spot analysis and reporting that we routinely offer to our subscribers but, due to the nature of this threat, we are making it public.
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At CCTV, Xi was welcomed by a placard pledging loyalty. “The central television’s family name is the party,” the sign read, anticipating remarks made by Xi at a later meeting.
“The media run by the party and the government are the propaganda fronts and must have the party as their family name,” Xi told propaganda workers at the meeting, during which he demanded absolute loyalty from state media.
“All the work by the party’s media must reflect the party’s will, safeguard the party’s authority, and safeguard the party’s unity,” he said. “They must love the party, protect the party, and closely align themselves with the party leadership in thought, politics and action.”