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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 09 2019, @12:12AM (1 child)
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.
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.
(Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Wednesday October 09 2019, @12:24AM
(note to myself: grin more often, many still don't get it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford