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Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments
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#862Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It's only a matter of time until it's a critical piece of software that can cripple a nation or beleaguer it's people. Hopefully this pushes more people to use open source software.
This is not limited to closed software. Remember the Chef developer who got all political and deleted his github. This is the new norm in software it appears. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/20/chef_roasted_for_ic... Luckily it was something that could be easily remedied.
That doesn't seem like as big of a problem, because you, as the user of an open source library, can take steps to prevent such things from affecting you. Most places I've worked at have their own repos with copies of any maven/node/ruby/whatever dependencies used.
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#863Wow, when a government can ruin someone's professional career of choice simply because he or she has an opinion that goes against the People’s Republic, that’s when companies should decide to no longer do business in China. Sadly, however, the dollar is more powerful than the the moral high ground.
This wasn't the government's decision though, was it? It was Blizzard's decision.
Just makes me wonder where all of this is going. Americans left and right are choosing China's cultural decisions over America's cultural ... legacy for the lack of a better word.
Over money.
It's like the Americans who love America, because America made them rich, are now loving China because China is richer. I don't know which is more American, actually.
It might be more "American" to love money more than America. Americans have shown it is more important to love money more than where you were born.
It's all so ... poetically disturbing.
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#864I agree 100% that we should boycott and sanction, however doubt there will be enough people who will, and enough people who care. And I don't blame most for not caring, there are more things to worry about than we have time available. Maybe 1% of hearthstone players will see your comment. Similarly, there are other entities which need to be sanctioned, which you and me won't find out about as it's outside of our area…
>Which makes me believe we need some kind of trusted "morality authority", which would process information similar to this and make informed decisions who to boycott, how and when. Less informed would be able to make an impact without having to do research (which not everyone would do equally well) You do realize how hilarious that is juxtaposed to the Chinese government, which is literally a 'morality authority,' ri…
Everyone loves a "moral authority" so long as it represents their morals.
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#865> offends a portion or group of the public
This is extremely vague. I'm pretty sure any non-trivial amount of words is virtually guaranteed to offend someone somehow.
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#866Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is wild, but it's also part of their own rules: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGVTuRlXkAA0ovF?format=png Honest question: Can we call this unfair if it was already laid out as part of their rules?
Yes. You presuppose that all rules - via their nature of being rules - are automatically fair. They aren't. Especially not if they're not arrived at by consensus, but unilaterally laid out.
I never said I thought the rules were fair, I meant the banning.
Their product, their rules, you break the rules, then you accept the consequences.
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#867Interesting how an incidence in gaming garner more eye balls on the topic of Hong Kong politics than whole month combined. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... Good for the people of Hong Kong. The topic of Hong Kong didn't struck me as sensational/desperate as it deserves until a Hong Kong friend send me this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yXTHODE24Q Am moved by the clip, especial…
> Interesting how an incidence in gaming garner more eye balls on the topic of Hong Kong politics than whole month combined.
That's not correct, if you search over the past month and sort by Most Popular. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=tr... This story is #1, but #2 and #3 combined outstrip it by themselves.
And they're both also about American companies censoring themselves and their users on behalf of China. For better or worse, it's that in particular that gets HN's attention.
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#868If you have a Blizzard account and want to cancel your account, you can do that here: https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/2659
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#869Re: Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments
#870If you have a Blizzard account and want to cancel your account, you can do that here: https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/2659
What’s hilarious is that deletion of account might require government issued photo ID.
The last step for me to stop doing business with a bad actor is by giving up my privacy.