Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event
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Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event
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#2I hope this emboldens people as they see that their protesting actually works. I'm often super pessimistic that large corporations are immune to protest because people have short attention spans and get bored of being outraged.
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#3The worst part they made the player gave up $10,000 of tournament prize he already won. It's a lot of money in China.
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#4This is a crisis point for everyone who supports political free speech.
Every corporation and business person is watching this to see which hurts their bottom line less, suppressing free speech globally, or angering China.
As consumers, we must make sure that they get the message loud and clear that suppressing free speech globally on behalf of China is going to hurt their bottom line far more than China will.
Otherwise, we will live in a world where China controls what discourse goes on in the world by controlling the corporations.
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#5I hope this emboldens people as they see that their protesting actually works. I'm often super pessimistic that large corporations are immune to protest because people have short attention spans and get bored of being outraged.
One east coast hurricane or larger west coast earthquake will drown this issue out
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#6The worst part they made the player gave up $10,000 of tournament prize he already won. It's a lot of money in China.
They went back on that decision.
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#7The worst part they made the player gave up $10,000 of tournament prize he already won. It's a lot of money in China.
They reversed that decision already, and halved the amount of time of the suspensions. It's not good enough when combined with denying any wrongdoing in the original decision, though, and when Blizzard's own Chinese version of its apology for Blitzchung's speech included a phrase that translates something like "We will protect the national dignity [of China]".
-- https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/10/10/verified-chinese-bli...
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#8The worst part they made the player gave up $10,000 of tournament prize he already won. It's a lot of money in China.
They ended up giving it back after a couple of days, and reduced his ban to 6 months.
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#9The worst part they made the player gave up $10,000 of tournament prize he already won. It's a lot of money in China.
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#10The huge question here is what's going to happen at BlizzCon in two weeks. There'll be 40,000+ attendees, cameras everywhere, there are usually Q&A panels, homemade signs for player support, cosplay, everything. How can you host BlizzCon when you're terrified of political speech?