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Bloomberg, Endadget and the rest of the digital news world are reporting on Blizzard suspending a Hearthstone Pro for adding a pro-Hong Kong message at the end of his stream.
From Bloomberg
A unit of Activision Blizzard Inc. has punished a player for expressing support for Hong Kong's protest movement, the latest example of a U.S. company attempting to rein in speech that might displease the Chinese communist party.
Blizzard's official release says that he violated competition rules, namely
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, in addition to other remedies which may be provided for under the Handbook and Blizzard's Website Terms.
(Score: 2) by looorg on Tuesday October 08 2019, @08:12PM
I guess they don't want to upset the Chinese (I guess bots could do it but they, Blizzard, frown upon that to), after all who is going to farm all the gold that needs to be sold to their western players so that they can enjoy their classic WOW experience -- without all the horrible farming that went into it or you could just consider gold buying part of the classic WOW experience since it was fairly common back in the day.