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posted by martyb on Tuesday October 08 2019, @07:59PM   Printer-friendly
from the what-if-all-players-added-the-same-.sig? dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 09 2019, @12:12AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 09 2019, @12:12AM (#904419)

    There is no evil in doing business, there're only profits and bonuses.

    Then there's no evil in anything, there's only profits and bonuses. You can frame any evil as merely 'amoral.' Yet, many seem to only want to do that with corporations, and I wonder why that is.

    Why do you hate capitalism?

    Because I'm a progressive and I don't trust mega-corporations to have ordinary people's best interests at heart, in any situation. Their actions can't be justified by just saying, 'Oh, they thought they could make money by doing that!' I mean, if you want to try to justify a corporation's action using another argument, then go ahead, but that one isn't it.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Wednesday October 09 2019, @12:24AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 09 2019, @12:24AM (#904428) Journal

    (note to myself: grin more often, many still don't get it)

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