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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: 5, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 08 2019, @09:01PM
Are you sure there weren't a whole lot of other dollars (people) on the other side of the balance that they would have lost if they had done business with NC at that time? Or, IOW, that not doing business with NC was merely the less expensive of two costly options?