Activision removes all references to Tianamen square WORLDWIDE in CoD trailer

Not just in China, they bowed down to their Chinese masters and censored the trailer everywhere.

Last week, Activision confirmed the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops – Cold War with a video built around a real-world interview with defector Yuri Bezmenov, in which he described a four-stage Soviet strategy dedicated to ending American dominance in the world: Demoralization, destabilization, crisis, and normalization. Clips of real-world historical events—the Vietnam War, riots in the US, that sort of thing—played throughout.

Earlier this week, that video was quietly deleted and replaced with one of roughly half the length. Activision gave no indication as to why the first trailer was removed, or even that it had happened, but according to South China Morning Post], it’s because the original video contained a brief clip of footage from the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, an event that’s heavily censored in China. The video was first replaced with one that had the clip blacked out, but at some point later the whole thing was replaced.

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It’s sadly expected. China is money to them, plain and simple.

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The what?

You mean the incident in Tiananmen Square that totally, 100% didn’t happen whatsoever?

The incident that didn’t exist that totally didn’t involve someone standing in front of a tank?

No idea what you’re talking about. That totally didn’t happen. The event that totally didn’t in Tiananmen Square in 1989? Definitely wasn’t an event that happened.

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Companies follow the money. That’s why they virtue signal in the West and happily censor in China what they champion here.

You expect actual values in an international company, you will be disappointed.

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I have to say, I’m not surprised at all. Money is a powerful thing.

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April 15, 1989 - Tienanmen Square.
Say It. It Happened.

Tank Man.
He is real.

It is spelled Taiwan. Not Chinese Taipei.

#StandWithHongKong
#JusticeForUyghurs

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That event where they ran a guy over with a tank? I don’t know what you’re talking about. nervous laughter

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This has what to do with Warcraft?

You seem lost. Here’s the CoD forums for you:
https://www.codforums.com/

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That is lame. Not a big fan of call of duty any more but I considered it when the setting was the Cold War. I am a bit of a history nerd.

Make an insecure account named Tianenmenhappened so that when Chinese hackers steal it, the government grabs them for finding out.

There is no war in Ba Sing Se.

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This is GD it doesn’t just have to be WoW related here.

I don’t play in chinese servers and non of you should (p2w) but let them censor whatever’s they pleases, is their country, but we -the occidentals- will not tolerate a single censor, because history!

Not anymore.

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Not surprising. Can’t say I care all that much also. Only enough to post.

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Yeah, but we know how “woke” blizzard is! Blizz will stand up to china’s censors making all references to a shadowlands character being trans disappear! Blizz isn’t just making woke gestures as a cynical way to make more sales in countries where having a trans character would be profitable!

Right blizz? Right…?

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Here is a candle to remember those lost souls.

:candle:

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Question does blizzard get a say in what happens in Activision games and vice versa? Are the companies partnered equally or does one own the other?

You mean this incident?
The incident took place at the northeast edge of Tienanmen Square shortly after noon on June 5, 1989, the day after the Chinese government’s violent crackdown on the Tienanmen protests. “Tank Man” stood in the middle of the wide avenue, directly in the path of a column of approaching tanks. Stuart Franklin, who was on assignment for Time magazine, told the New York Time “At some point, shots were fired and the tanks carried on down the road toward us, leaving Tienanmen Square behind, until blocked by a lone protester.” He wore a white shirt and black trousers, and he held two shopping bags. As the tanks came to a stop, the man gestured towards the tanks with one of the bags. In response, the lead tank attempted to drive around the man, but the man repeatedly stepped into the path of the tank in a show of nonviolent action. After repeatedly attempting to go around rather than crush the man, the lead tank stopped its engines, and the armored vehicles behind it seemed to follow suit. There was a short pause with the man and the tanks having reached a quiet, still impasse.

Having successfully brought the column to a halt, the man climbed onto the hull of the buttoned-up lead tank and, after briefly stopping at the driver’s hatch, appeared in video footage of the incident to call into various ports in the tank’s turret. He then climbed atop the turret and seemed to have a short conversation with a crew member at the gunner’s hatch. After ending the conversation, the man descended from the tank. The tank commander briefly emerged from his hatch, and the tanks restarted their engines, ready to continue on. At that point, the man, who was still standing within a meter or two from the side of the lead tank, leapt in front of the vehicle once again and quickly re-established the man–tank standoff.

Video footage shows two figures in blue pulling the man away and disappearing with him into a nearby crowd; the tanks continued on their way. Charlie Cole (photographer), who was there for Newsweek , said it was the Chinese government (the police), while Jan Wong The Globe thought that the men who pulled him away were concerned bystanders.

Ha! No.

Pretty sure Activision calls the shots since they make all the dosh.