The company in the presentation appears to describe how it would need to adapt to Chinese rules and weighs whether to partner with Tencent or NetEase, a Chinese tech and game company. Some of these documents were from a 2017 Roblox-made slideshow presentation, according to Vice. To release the game, Roblox had partnered with the massive entertainment conglomerate Tencent, which was one of two companies listed as potential partners in the documents reviewed by Vice. China has long contentiously claimed Taiwan as part of its territory.Īlthough Roblox did eventually create a mobile Chinese version of its platform (Roblox China, also known as LuoBoLeSi) in July last year, the game shuttered indefinitely in December. Numerous US-based and international companies in the past have adapted their websites to fit Chinese rules, including airlines like Delta, which faced backlash from China after it listed self-governing Taiwan as its own country. Known as one of the most censorious countries in the world, China has a long history of deleting content online and suppressing users who speak out.

These documents described how Roblox would need to mold its platform to fit China's extensive content laws. Documents from 2017 included in that hack appeared to show a plan to adapt a version of the platform in China, according to Vice, which first reported on the files. It often indicates a user profile.Ī mysterious hacking operation allegedly stole and published confidential internet documents from Roblox on a forum this month, as part of a ploy to extort the massively popular gaming company.

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