Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments

Post by cabalamat » Tue, Oct 08, 2019, 12:23 PM UTC

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #221

alimbada wrote: post #158

It's a shame but I feel like the majority of gamers won't care. They'll either be ignorant of this or they'll just shrug and continue playing. I boycotted Activision and by proxy Blizzard when Activision acquired them a long time ago but their continuing success shows I'm part of an extremely tiny minority.

> I feel like the majority of gamers won't care The simultaneity of the NBA and now Blizzard so publicly siding with Beijing may elevate this out of the realm of commercial issues (subject to boycotts) into a political one.

Post by appleflaxen » Tue, Oct 08, 2019, 12:24 PM UTC

bliztw2019 wrote: post #181

zygimantasdev wrote: post #4

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)

South Park were the sellouts that paved the way for all of this.... but around 8 years ago they decided that money was more important than their principles... And here we are. > money was more important than their principles BTW that's really been the core principle. The US citizens lost their game of chicken with the govt.

Post by delfinom » Tue, Oct 08, 2019, 12:25 PM UTC

yoz-y wrote: post #118

celticninja wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you just publish garbage instead?

You could but everybody uses version pinning in production, right?

Post by squarefoot » Tue, Oct 08, 2019, 12:25 PM UTC

abbadadda wrote: post #204

alimbada wrote: post #158

It's a shame but I feel like the majority of gamers won't care. They'll either be ignorant of this or they'll just shrug and continue playing. I boycotted Activision and by proxy Blizzard when Activision acquired them a long time ago but their continuing success shows I'm part of an extremely tiny minority.

At this point it goes far beyond just gamers. From the NBA to Google, this effect is everywhere. To be explicit, the effect is U.S. firms letting China dictate what they do or do not care about on a global political scale.

Post by cycloptic » Tue, Oct 08, 2019, 12:26 PM UTC

tomatotomato37 wrote: post #201

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Six Corporations control 90% of the media in America Totally incomparable. America has the First Amendment. Its government and corporations can be held accountable in courts. Any rando has the capacity to pine off about anything on Twitter. Meanwhile China boasts a centralised bureaucracy literally censoring Winnie the Pooh images because its dictator doesn’t like his resemblance. Yes, America has a media ownership…

As has been spammed in many threads about hate speech type censorship before, only the government is legally accountable to the First Amendment, private businesses and that corporate personhood BS can use their own freedom of speech to censor whoever they want on their platforms.