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Title    Blizzard Bans Hearthstone Pro, Rescinds Prize Money for Supporting Hong Kong
Date    Tuesday October 08 2019, @07:59PM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the what-if-all-players-added-the-same-.sig? dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/10/08/1819235

Walzmyn writes:

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.


Original Submission

Links

  1. "Walzmyn" - https://soylentnews.org/~Walzmyn/
  2. "Bloomberg" - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-08/blizzard-bans-gamer-rescinds-money-on-hong-kong-protest-support
  3. "Endadget" - https://www.engadget.com/2019/10/08/blizzard-bans-hearthstone-player-for-hong-konA%20unit%20of%20Activision%20Blizzard%20Inc.%20has%20punished%20a%20player%20for%20expressing%20support%20for%20Hong%20Kong%E2%80%99s%20protest%20movement,%20the%20latest%20example%20of%20a%20U.S.%20company%20attempting%20to%20rein%20in%20speech%20that%20might%20displease%20the%20Chinese%20communist%20party.g-protest/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGtLF1x5X5Po_JLbC4_2b1zgL9StenhaGHkzAN5r1VSau75LhtCd5lftEaTjazGxCt5gwMn6S3sBaKQeA4ZaniBltSj88oErmW1ecyln6EnJPgRsv9VxSt7YF1ft0yqqQUO_IGIOAeVEmvLO4PCsb9te2-9LqkzCyfcPguOLWOOs
  4. "official release" - https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/blog/23179289
  5. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=36717

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