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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: 1, Redundant) by aristarchus on Tuesday October 08 2019, @08:12PM (14 children)
"Recends"? Surely the intended word was "resends". But that does not work, either. Good job, eds! On the Front Page, in the Headline!
(Score: 4, Informative) by barbara hudson on Tuesday October 08 2019, @08:18PM (3 children)
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 1, Redundant) by aristarchus on Tuesday October 08 2019, @08:23PM (2 children)
+1 Obvious mod?
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 08 2019, @10:13PM
Not with TMB at the helm.
(Score: 4, Informative) by c0lo on Tuesday October 08 2019, @10:15PM
Based on the +Informative mod of the GP, it may be it wasn't obvious for somebody.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 08 2019, @08:20PM (1 child)
It means to revoke.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 09 2019, @11:11AM
its a fancy word for "no" amiright?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 08 2019, @08:20PM (1 child)
Seems more a mash up of Recede and/or Recind. Maybe your blame is misplaced, they avoided the grind and had a chinese render the headline on the eds behalf?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 09 2019, @10:26PM
Not to refudiate your claim, by going rouge, but seems more like a Republican mistake than Chinese.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 08 2019, @08:21PM (2 children)
I read it as rescinds [merriam-webster.com]
Which fits the topic.
Now, looking at the Bloomberg(Engadget TFA requires javascript) TFA (thanks for making me read TFA, you insensitive clod!), the headline reads:
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by aristarchus on Wednesday October 09 2019, @12:13AM (1 child)
Sorry about the whole "reading TFA" thing, but at least now it is fixed, so that SN will no longer appear to be at the literacy level of 4chan, gab, or Trump.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by aristarchus on Thursday October 10 2019, @08:08AM
If Soylents can't spell, then Soylents can't Fluence! If we are going to be illiterate, we will be left with Ethanol_Fulumoxxed and Runmyway1965, neither of which is a good place to be as an influencer blog! Bad enough we have the handicap of TMB, whom we have to explain every time strangers come to visit.
(He's like a Minotaur, really good at coding Perl, but not someone you would want to let out of the labyrinth. I really hope we can keep that new kid, Perseus, with his Rust, away from the TMinotaurBuzzard, else some bad things will happen.)
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 09 2019, @04:59AM
And it seems the alt-spelling crue is hard at work modding down the aristarchus, and after all his hard work? Ever wonder why SN has no friends?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 09 2019, @07:53PM (1 child)
And who the fuck is "Endadget"?
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday October 10 2019, @08:11AM
Opposite of "Beginadget"? I got nothing. My pedantic grammar mods for the day are all used up. Carry on, intrepic AC? Smite them illiterate Eds! You have my blessings, if not my permission.