Blizzard has shown their true colors: make money at all costs.
This is almost every company ever to be fair.
American companies for sure, rest of the world it depends.
Fallout from Blizzard Hong Kong Incident
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#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unconstitutional? Like, did you try to read first amendment? Here it is: > Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. So, did Congress of the USA have to do anything about it? No, "free spee…
It is illegal for a company to punish an employee for political demonstrations.
He's not an employee though. And in general, if you do your protest on company time using company resources and damaging the company (by i.e. saying from their Twitter account that $largeCustomer is evil and stupid), would you still be protected?
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#173Great Streisand moves by China though, previously gamers or basketball fans might not really care about what's happening in Hong Kong/China in general, but within 2 days they (China) have raised awareness of what a shitty overlord they are.
Ditto South Park. By telling people they cannot watch South Park, they have guaranteed everyone will want to watch that episode. That's the lesson Dolores Umbridge inadvertently taught us in Harry Potter # 5.
South Park Studios and Comedy Central are having a great week.
I'd be surprised if it wasn't one of the biggest episodes in South Park history. And certainly the most viewed episode in China, haha.
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#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, it doesn't. Let's take an actual country rather than something vacuous like "The West". To start a company in the United States (for example), you do not need "an American business partner" controlled by the federal government of the United States. The fate of your company is not tied 100% to the approval or disapproval of that business partner's actions, which in the case of China are vigorously and actively pol…
> suggesting that Western Capitalism is corrupt, Marx was the one true prophet ... but you'd still be in business. I wonder how that would have gone at the height of McCarthyism.
I wonder how long McCarthyism lasted. I also wonder how long the CCP has been in power for.
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#175It's almost as though we need a president interested in some kind of trade...conflict with China. If only we had one of those.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments here or take HN threads further into political flamewar.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21204717.
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#176I'm mixed on this. I'm 100% for Chung “Blitzchung” Ng Wai to express his support for Hong Kong. I'm not so sure it's okay for him to do it on Blizzard's show/event. 27 years ago Sinead O'Connor ripped up a picture of the Pope on Saturday Night Live when it was broadcast live. She's was arguably right to critize the Pope but was she right to do it from Saturday Night Live's Live broadcast? IIRC because of that inciden…
I agree that Blizzard is reasonable to want to limit political speech, including speech related to Hong Kong, on their event broadcast. However I think the response was totally out of scale. They banned the player from competing for a year, rescinded winnings, deleted the VOD of the event, and fired both casters who were interviewing him. Would that have happened if a player on stream said something else political an…
Proof that “e-sports” is an amateur endeavor at best.
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#177First, I introduce myself. I am a Chinese, an ordinary citizen. I want to express my view rationally: the so-called repression of speech, freedom of speech, that also scores what freedom of speech, Hong Kong incident involves national dignity, just as the United States don't want 911 to be supported by some people
(example:
Imagine a well-known person, just days after 911, publicly declaring that 911 was a Great National Renaissance Movement
.)(More seriously, it involves the level of the Chinese nation.)
To say that, I just want to express that this is the common view of the Chinese people at present. That's why there are Chinese people who support 911 on Twitter. They want to express that Americans support Hong Kong's behavior. In their hearts, it's the same behavior as supporting 911.
While being indoctrinated with China's harmfulness theory by the media, I hope that you can rationally understand these recent events, rather than trust the media.
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#178It's a weird day when I find myself agreeing with Marco Rubio. But it's true, China is effectively attempting a global chill on free speech by gating market access. If we don't stand up now, the effects will be felt long into the future.
It’s not weird to agree on individual policies and disagree where you don’t. Thank God for America where this still can happen.
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#179And that's why FIFA bans all political displays or comments, and displays of any symbols in general... I expect Blizzard to follow suit.
But aren't FIFA a bunch of morally bankrupt scam artists? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA#Corruption
Isn't that what GP said? Banning speech sure seems "morally bankrupt" to me...
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#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ditto South Park. By telling people they cannot watch South Park, they have guaranteed everyone will want to watch that episode. That's the lesson Dolores Umbridge inadvertently taught us in Harry Potter # 5.
Yup we watched the episode last night. I hadn't watched South Park since college. It was a great episode. It's free to watch here: https://southpark.cc.com/full-episodes/s23e02-band-in-china
I feel like an idiot. It only just occurred to me that the episode's name is "ban(ne)d in China".