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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: 4, Insightful) by c0lo on Wednesday October 09 2019, @01:06AM (4 children)
LOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 09 2019, @09:08AM (3 children)
For Realz [twitter.com]
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday October 09 2019, @10:37AM (1 child)
Yeah, well, I hope I'll live to see the flood of companies stopping from doing business with China because the CCP splashes them with cash in exchange for obedience.
But until that happens, the cruel reality that I see is: those "most private companies" is just one and a hypothetical one come to that (iff what the linked twitterer speaks the truth).
To be honest, I won't keep my breath until I see those "most private companies" even if I wish them all the luck they need.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 09 2019, @11:27AM
It's a common sentiment although the left have gone from "Free Tibet" to supporting chicom oppression of Pepe touting, pro-democracy (and pro-Western) HK protesters. They ignore Uyghurs in concentration camps and it'll take another Tienanmen for these folks to wake up.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 10 2019, @07:11AM
That guy, while a cool dude, is small potatoes compared to the behemoths.
This scandal may hurt Blizzard but it can be difficult to judge the impact so early. A lot of people do not pay attention to this stuff.
Plenty of developers are taking the Epic Tencent cash. They will do that because it has nice features like the ability to have no user reviews on your game. And if you can get guaranteed funds to cover the cost of 100% refunds of your game, it's hard to refuse.