Blizzard has rules in place against derailing their official tournament broadcasts with divisive social/political views. The player signed an agreement to abide by the rules, broke them & received punishment for it.
Do you think they should not have those rules or that they should not enforce them in this case?
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Maxpower (Old Spike)
What they expressed isn't a divisive view in the US. It's only devisive in China.
As a US citizen, we should be wary of any US company willing to capitulate to China. Events like these are a wake up call.
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acdc51502112 (Long Spike)
Let alone the endless reports of the Chinese influence over universities. Here in Toronto there was a pro-Hong Kong parade from the front of city hall on an approved route. When they met up in front of old city hall (right beside the new one) they were met by a mass of Chinese with masks and cameras, they encircled the pro HK people and were harassing them and blocking them from doing their parade (and the cameras were to record which Chinese citizens or whos family memebers were at the parade). It's illegal to do that, and when the BLM people blocked the pride parade a few years ago, the police were only not removing them because the pride people didn't want them to. Our countries and corporations are becoming subservient to the Chinese governemnt, this has to be stopped.
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danmanjones (Old Spike)
It's only devisive in China.
Blizzard is a global company & the Chinese gaming market is the same size as the US. As a US citizen you should embrace the market forces, no?
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Fullauto223cal (Old Spike)
I wonder how long it took his bosses in China to approve his speech?
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(Old Spike)
They did reduce the guy's punishment, from 12 months down to 6 & they gave him 10k of his prize money.
(Old Spike)
Only after MASSIVE backlash and he shouldn't have gotten that.
(Old Spike)
Blizzard has rules in place against derailing their official tournament broadcasts with divisive social/political views. The player signed an agreement to abide by the rules, broke them & received punishment for it.
Do you think they should not have those rules or that they should not enforce them in this case?
(Old Spike)
What they expressed isn't a divisive view in the US. It's only devisive in China.
As a US citizen, we should be wary of any US company willing to capitulate to China. Events like these are a wake up call.
(Long Spike)
Let alone the endless reports of the Chinese influence over universities. Here in Toronto there was a pro-Hong Kong parade from the front of city hall on an approved route. When they met up in front of old city hall (right beside the new one) they were met by a mass of Chinese with masks and cameras, they encircled the pro HK people and were harassing them and blocking them from doing their parade (and the cameras were to record which Chinese citizens or whos family memebers were at the parade). It's illegal to do that, and when the BLM people blocked the pride parade a few years ago, the police were only not removing them because the pride people didn't want them to. Our countries and corporations are becoming subservient to the Chinese governemnt, this has to be stopped.
(Old Spike)
It's only devisive in China.
Blizzard is a global company & the Chinese gaming market is the same size as the US. As a US citizen you should embrace the market forces, no?
(Old Spike)
I wonder how long it took his bosses in China to approve his speech?