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Re: Blizzard bans player from Hearthstone following on-stream Hong Kong protest

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Post by LordDragonfang » Tue, Oct 08, 2019, 7:47 PM UTC

lordlimecat wrote: post #96

glogla wrote: post #90

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> Is Trump evil? It's not clear to me Trump is corrupt, abuser, a fascist, arguably a traitor of American people. He's racist, sexist and he gives his support to horrible movements (like KKK and alt-right) and normalizes their views. He's responsible for ICE and putting children in concentration camps. There must be huge gap between perspectives, because I don't understand how it something like this can be unclear. I…

>He's responsible for ICE In what world? ICE was created in 2003.

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Re: Blizzard bans player from Hearthstone following on-stream Hong Kong protest

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Post by LordDragonfang » Tue, Oct 08, 2019, 7:59 PM UTC

lmedinas wrote: post #48

jimbob45 wrote: post #35

At this point, Blizz must be hoping that the bad publicity is better than their current no publicity. Hearthstone is the #14 title on Twitch as I type this out and prominent players have noted how much less viewership the tournaments consistently get. Also Tencent owns a portion of Activision Blizzard. That would be my guess for who is pulling the strings behind this specific incident.

I think Blizzard wants to make a statement and being strict about politics have no place in their games... Honestly i would be surprised if any gaming company would allow that, independent if the Player is right or wrong. With respect to Twitch placement, since when Twitch is a benchmark for number of Players in a game worldwide ? HS lost momentum because of the greedy economy of the game and because other games surg…

>I think Blizzard wants to make a statement and being strict about politics have no place in their games...

Meanwhile in Overwatch, they've made a point of a diverse cast and canonically made several characters gay/bi, upsetting plenty of far-conservatives. (all of which is excellent, of course) Hell, Starcraft literally features storylines about revolutionaries fighting a dictatorship.

I get that game politics are different than real-world politics, and they have to draw the line somewhere, but it's a little conspicuous where they've chosen to draw the line.

Re: Blizzard bans player from Hearthstone following on-stream Hong Kong protest

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Post by Iv » Wed, Oct 09, 2019, 1:09 AM UTC

mlang23 wrote: post #24

alpaca128 wrote: post #4

"Engaging in any act that, in Blizzard’s sole discretion, brings you into public disrepute, offends a portion or group of the public, or otherwise damages Blizzard image will result in removal from Grandmasters and reduction of the player’s prize total to $0 USD [...]" That's pretty close to "Blizzard can remove you from Grandmasters as soon as you open your mouth". Sad to see such a cowardice from corporations, alth…

Isn't this basically the same with all big corporations these days? If you say unpopular things on your YouTube channel, you will be demonitized.as a way of punishment. In short, either you please big brother, or you will suffer.

I choose to believe that even big corporations can choose to have values.

I do believe we are entering in an age where reputation is going to be much more valuable to companies.

My ISP for 10 years is one that took some strong stances against censorship by doing things like mirroring wikileaks (back when it was cool) os supporting net neutrality.

I kinda put Google in a different basket for years because of their (initial? I think they changed?) refusal to censor search results in China.

And companies who submit to Chinese censorship, I want strictly nothing to do with.

Re: Blizzard bans player from Hearthstone following on-stream Hong Kong protest

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Post by mytailorisrich » Wed, Oct 09, 2019, 6:30 AM UTC

NeedMoreTea wrote: post #84

mytailorisrich wrote: post #83

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I don't understand what's the argument about here. Commemorating war dead is a sensitive issue. FIFA has to take all situations across the world into account. It is sensible for them not to allow any display and to keep to it without exception even if the British think that they are special. No big deal, just keep football purely about sport.

> the British think that they are special lol. You are aware that just about the entire developed world, and a fair proportion of the rest mark the same day, right? It's called Veteran's Day in the US, also on November 11th. Not marking it would be the political statement.

Yes the world, at least the world that matters, is made of the western countries that fought WWI.

The poppy incident is an illustration of this arrogance and ignorance of the real world.

Re: Blizzard bans player from Hearthstone following on-stream Hong Kong protest

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Post by dang » Wed, Oct 09, 2019, 6:41 AM UTC

mytailorisrich wrote: post #104

NeedMoreTea wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> the British think that they are special lol. You are aware that just about the entire developed world, and a fair proportion of the rest mark the same day, right? It's called Veteran's Day in the US, also on November 11th. Not marking it would be the political statement.

Yes the world, at least the world that matters, is made of the western countries that fought WWI. The poppy incident is an illustration of this arrogance and ignorance of the real world.

It looks like you've been using HN primarily for political and ideological battle again. We ban accounts that do that because it's not in keeping with the intellectual curiosity HN is supposed to be for. Would you please take that spirit more to heart and fix this?

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