Love to see people calling out human rights abuses met with nerds on gaming forums saying, āum, actually if you read the rulebook, clause 47, subsection 3, paragraph 5, itās actually a violationā¦ā
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Expect nothing less.
Expect nothing less.
Expect nothing less.
Expect nothing less.
You must wait 5 seconds to meme again.
If the agreement required he not back Hong Kong, a country in need of support, I say it is ethical to break that agreement at that point. Set bad terms, get bad results. Think greatest good.
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Lookā¦ Iām not hear to say whats right and wrong as a personā¦ Iām a business manā¦ okay? lol I play video games when I come in from work , and we have a sayin in the office , āKeep religion , and politics out of three things ā¦ chit chat , interviews, and date night.ā theres a reason why this is a sayingā¦ because snowflakes will get offended by anything , and blizzard shouldnāt have to pay for what some idiot that breaks the rules purposely mind you.
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I mean itās no different that nerds who didnāt care about Hong Kong till some gamer told them to care.
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Also you really think thatā¦ you think while he was giggling to himself , while wearing a mask and goggles during a live broad cast , he was really thinking about " Iām gonna make a differenceā¦" lol no he was trolling okay? Iām sorry but call it as I see it.
What?
Theyāre completely different.
The amount of people misusing the words āFreedom of Speechā truly makes me fear for the US education. Freedom of Speech protects from the GOVERNMENT censoring speech.
A private company absolutely can censor what you say while under their employ as terms of being employed. As a de-facto employee he absolutely can have his speech governed by the people who are paying him and if they say āNo Politicsā then you have to abide.
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Are they? I mean this has been going on for months now, the first posts I have seen about it have been today.
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People pretend that. but no one cared until this situation showed up and people decided this was a hill to die on. Itās been happening for a long time now before this
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The protests have been going on for months. I donāt think there have been hordes of Hearthstone players chiming in until recently. Thatās why you havenāt heard discussion about it on a Blizzard forum.
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Like I said Iām just a business man trying to help yall understand the rules of presenting yourself professionally, he did it wrong, sorry but he did.
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Seems youāre uninformed that also the 2 casters were fired as well.
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No I know like said iās a shame that they were , I donāt know if they were fired for aging him on to do it, but I call it as I see it , he was clearly trolling and not taking the interview seriously so ya.
Love the framing there.
No one cared until a Hearthstone streamer chimed in and now this is a āhill to die onā.
Justā¦ lol.
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why would anyone post about it here before this incident?
had no relation to OW until now
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You are welcome to your own interpretation of course. The subject matter isnāt funny though. It is possible he did not understand the ramifications. Personally though I feel the more people are aware of HKās situation and the more coverage it gets, the better for the citizens living in fear.
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If it was more, āthat would make us look bad to Chinaā but the result is still the same. Blizzardās game. Blizzardās rules.
Try to look at it from Blizzardās perspective. Theyāre a business and itās in their interest to remain apolitical. If every player who got up on stage started talking politics itās obviously going to get controversial, which is why their public-facing platforms are strictly for business and not personal soapboxing.
Imagine youāre a Blizzard exec and this kid gets up on stage supporting the Hong Kong Revolution. You may personally support the Hong Kong revolution too, but if you endorse his opinion in any official capacity you might be looking at China blocking your games and effectively shutting down your Taiwan branch. That means letting go of all those employees with families to feed, not to mention millions of Chinese gamers who paid for your product suddenly left hung to dry unable to play your games. OTOH if you stay apolitical your Western audience will get offended and potentially boycott.
Itās a lose-lose situation either way, which is why Blizzard stays out of it in the first place. This is why they have rules against soapboxing with commensurate penalties, all of which were broken by this kid and all of which were executed accordingly.
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Thatās all you had to say. I understand how it works.
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Isnāt Taiwan de facto separate from China? I doubt theyād do anything if China started banning Blizzard games. 
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