So it’s only heroic when… it appears in the appropriate venue, it doesn’t disrupt anything and it doesn’t break any rules?.. I mean that invalidates just about every hero I’ve ever heard of, but okay, we can start from there.
Isn’t that just good advertising?.. I mean isn’t that what you’re supposed to do if you have a message you think is important and you want people to hear it? Do you not think the plight of Hong Kong is important enough a message?
Well first, nobody has yet explained to me what rule he actually broke. I don’t think he broke a rule. I think he said a thing, and after the fact Blizzard decided they didn’t like it and they made an example of him. But I don’t see anything in the TOS passage Blizzard cited that says anything like “no political speech allowed.”
First of all, Blitzchung isn’t crying foul.
Far from it.
Here is what he actually said after the ban was handed down:
“Today I lost Hearthstone , it’s only a matter of four years. But if Hong Kong lost, it’s a matter of a lifetime.”
Does that sound like disingenuous “crying foul” to you?
We’re the ones crying foul. Because we don’t approve of what Blizzard did, nor why. And if you are as big on Amnesty International as you say, you should like to be with us on this one.
No, I don’t think you can. Because the decision was political. The decision was to silence and punish a dissident against the Chinese government.
Do you know how you know it’s political?
Because Blizzard banned the streamers as well.
The streamers, who had nothing to do with what Blitzchung did, were reamed right along with him in order to proffer some appeasement to the Chinese regime.
Tell me what rule the streamers broke?