The fact that anyone needs to speak out about what china is doing is bad enough in itself. Maybe if American companies like blizzard, and companies all over the world, cared more about human rights than money then china wouldn’t have the power to commit all the atrocious acts that they do.
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Blizzard also kept tracer straight in China
And didn’t publish the Christmas comic in Russia either
But you admit that blizzard pushes politics both ingame in OW and irl
As such their no politics on our platform argument has no weight
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The rule of the platform are rules they made. Ones they can bend, break, and do whatever they want to. Selective hypocrisy is something you earn after building up your own community of millions of people.
Also, stop with the self-righteous grandstanding.
Blitzchung didn’t make the comments just so you could argue if it was against the rules or not, nor to have you applaud Blizzard’s behavior for making PR statement about rules.
It was never about the rules, stop making it about the rules.
Blitzchung knew the risk associated with making his comments, he knowingly said this with knowledge he could possibly be punished. We should be beyond this, but people like you are trying to both assert slippery slope fallacies, and detract from his original intent – bringing attention to the protests, in otherwise silent media coverage.
When the whole point of this PR nightmare was that HK citizens are literally in the streets fighting for their autonomy, and Chinese police have literally shot and killed HK protestors.
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Can we please stop with politics related to the game, the punishment was reduced. Let’s try to keep that at away from the game/company.
Just to clarify… I do not supp the situation in Hong Kong.
But don’t you guys understand?? If Blizzard lets people say Hong Kong should be free then they would be forced to let people say that China genociding the Uyghurs is a good thing because that’s how it works.
I am very smart and enlightened centrist.
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No, they wouldn’t. They wouldnt be forced to do anything. This isn’t the government.
No one has to be allowed a platform because one person used his victory speech as one.
This isn’t up for debate, Blizz can outright allow it and they didn’t.
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It’s been all over the news since August. Don’t know what silence you’re talking about.
Maybe you’re talking about the US, since the only thing MSM care is “Trump did something today !”
August?
This has been brewing since 2014.
The fact you only just now heard it in August is due to tensions reaching all-time highs.
The whole point was to penetrate the news bubble in the US and Canada, who have historically been the beacons of democracy and protest, and call to action an intervention.
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It would be hypocritical from Blizzard to allow a political message but not another because it don’t align with your political agenda. If one voice “deserves” to be heard, then everyone deserves to as well.
They want to stay neutral precisely for this point. And it’s a good thing.
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must defend billionaires 
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Protests only started in March of this year tho…
There is no silence over it anymore, so really your point is a bit flawed. If you want to talk about silence we can approach the subject of French citizens being gravely injured by police force since December of last year. And I didn’t see any Widowmaker mascot in support of them.
But I guess it’s OK for double standards to apply when it’s about the Evil China.
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America companies’/corporations’ TOS should never be able to overrule human rights if they wish to continue to work on American soil.
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Mei becoming a mascot only happened to get back at blizzard for what it did. It’s so she gets banned in China the same way Winnie the Pooh did.
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No, it wouldn’t… hypocrisy means they had to have a stance from the beginning and then flipped their stance. Their stance has always been a mirror of Western ideals. Their credo and mantra is plastered all over their main offices, they didn’t flip flop because someone used his victory speech as a soapbox.
Nor does it mean they have to provide a soapbox to anyone else. This isn’t the government, full stop they do not have to enforce equity… and they are fully within their power and moral responsibility as a Western company to elevate some things and completely censor others.
Their choice to punish Blitzchung literally IS hypocrisy.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Entertainment companies have no business trying to influence foreign policy. It’s not up to Blizzard to solve the world’s human rights issues. It’s their role to generate revenue so they can keep providing entertainment and the best way for them to do that is to provide an inclusive environment where all players feel welcome, even Chinese players who may not want to hear their government attacked on a platform that’s supposed to be about video games, which many play to take a break from the problems of the real world.
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It has nothing to do with America… It’s common worldwide for contracts made for people supposed to represent an entity to include behavior rules. That often includes don’t talk about divisive and/or political subjects. If you’re not happy with them, then you shouldn’t sign it.
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As much as Activi … Blizzard ****ed up lately i have to say they were 1st very tollerant on this forum with all the HK topics and 2nd this is a gaming forum and it is understandable they don’t want it full of politics.
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