Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments

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Post by hownottowrite » Tue, Oct 08, 2019, 9:23 AM UTC

Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments
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Post by krige » Tue, Oct 08, 2019, 9:55 AM UTC

Also fired both casters working on the event, even though they did not know what was going to be said: https://twitter.com/Slasher/status/1181443974420189185

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Post by mwyah » Tue, Oct 08, 2019, 10:00 AM UTC

Seems reasonable that they don't want to allow players to push their politics using the official Blizzard streams. They are free to do so in their spare time.

What do you think Blizzard would do if some guy wore a MAGA hat in an official stream?

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Post by zygimantasdev » Tue, Oct 08, 2019, 10:00 AM UTC

South Park is spot on this season. You could say they are good with predictions, but I think they just gave different perspective to something that already has been happening (episodes on China censorship)

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Post by ReptileMan » Tue, Oct 08, 2019, 10:01 AM UTC

This is shaping to be fun tactic in the culture war. To force corporations that want to be seen as woke in the west to bow to China which will hurt their image at home.

If someone manages to do it with Nike it will be fun to watch.

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Post by sword_smith » Tue, Oct 08, 2019, 10:02 AM UTC

What was the exact quote? The article doesn't mention it. I assume it was in support of the HK protestors.

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Post by wei_jok » Tue, Oct 08, 2019, 10:02 AM UTC

Previous discussion (for some reason, it was removed off the front page pretty quickly, hmm): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21189491

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Post by Haga » Tue, Oct 08, 2019, 10:04 AM UTC

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Post by suiting » Tue, Oct 08, 2019, 10:04 AM UTC

krige wrote: post #2

Also fired both casters working on the event, even though they did not know what was going to be said: https://twitter.com/Slasher/status/1181443974420189185

This might not be true though. I have heard that during the broadcast they had been supporting Hong Kong. Not saying this is the wrong thing to do though but just a fact.

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Post by BigJ1211 » Tue, Oct 08, 2019, 10:08 AM UTC

suiting wrote: post #9

krige wrote: post #2

Also fired both casters working on the event, even though they did not know what was going to be said: https://twitter.com/Slasher/status/1181443974420189185

This might not be true though. I have heard that during the broadcast they had been supporting Hong Kong. Not saying this is the wrong thing to do though but just a fact.

All they did was ask him to say to slogan according to the people on reddit, something he was going to say regardless.