Its interesting how much more supportive the Hearthstone forums are to the idea of condemning blizzard’s stance on human rights and censorship. Must hit closer to home that it was a HS player being banned.
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isn’t the united states in a trade war with china? is this a good idea for business to be world wide what if there was a war and these companies are in the nations at war with each other what if the companies were demanded by all sides to side with them what do they do. its a serious question effects companies like blizzard and their customers.
I think the economy and the government are very separate, and are separating more as time goes on. Companies like Blizzard really want that Chinese market, its massive and cant be ignored, but to do so means to follow their censorship laws.
Companies in the US are not really “in line” with the US, they operate here, but store their money overseas. They use tax havens, loopholes, and lobby the government to reduce taxes at every step. Then top 400 richest people in this country paid less in taxes than you did. I really dont think they care about ideas like patriotism or what stance the US as a whole takes, its technically possible that if it came to it, they could abandon the US market for china’s and be fine. They are as it always is, only in it for money at any price. Even if it means bowing to human rights violators.
And judging by the response here, it wont hurt their bottom line too much doing so.
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Thank you for having some sanity. It’s almost as if this is a profoundly bigger cross of the line than making a bunch of gambling lootboxes or putting Diablo on a phone.
yeah, Im pretty bad at rambling on.
Its possible I quoted the wrong person anyway.
point is, Blizzard is in the business of entertainment not politics, neither are welcome here.
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point is, Blizzard is in the business of entertainment not politics, neither are welcome here.
You’re doing a great job defending the pride of the country.
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Holy thread merge batman, that ought to neatly end all discussion on this topic (by virtue of not being able to FIND any of the discussion within this 5000 post monstrosity), without being technically thread deletion.
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Rigid dinosaur? That’s a new one.
I’ll feel free to stick with wherever I see fit, which is if I agree to a set of rules and regulations I will abide by them. If I don’t agree, then I won’t participate. Obviously over your head though.
Honestly I dont get the outrage.
The dude breaks the rules, gets booted, pretty simple.
China has been a tyranny for as long as Ive been alive and longer.
its like some here think they stumbled onto some thing new.
We all raged over the students being slaughtered years ago.
Know what it changed?
Nothing.
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If it isn’t in the business of politics, it shouldn’t have censored and punished Blitzchung. That was a quintessentially political act.
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I don’t care what the stupid outdated law says. The internet should be considered a public forum. The current situation is outright tyranny.
Tianenmen Square wasn’t being actively supported by American companies
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If they had a halfway decent setup, they would have had a time delay on the stream and would have been able to cut the feed before anyone saw what Blitzchung said. They’ve bungled this in more ways than one.
Your ignorance knows no bounds 
What changed is China undertook economic reforms which now make them tyrants with gobs of money.
Encouraging apathy is sure to reinforce that status quo. Which is why this forum discussion, and the action it seems to desire, is a positive thing. If we can disuade corporations from doing business with China, by whatever means, it will utlimately be a good thing. Because the leverage they have is what is empowering them to remain tyrannical.
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Yes, you clearly have a firm grasp of global politics.
Let’s follow the “any time we see something we don’t like, let’s always take the nuclear option, up to, and including nukes, if necessary!”
It was the same discussion in 15 different threads anyway.
Unforytunately at the end of the day Hong Kong will merge back into China, there’ll be howls when it happens, those howls will die down, wealthier people in HK will flee, life will go on.
I’m sure they knew beforehand what they were doing is not game related, do you want to see Free Palestine, Boycott Israel next? I don’t…
Nice post nice if people would just realize that all you have to do is say " Blizzard please stop doing business with China as it makes supporting you feel wrong" things would look at lot better. Cause accusing Blizzard of backing China is not correct. They made business choice and need too be asked to end the relationship that led to that choice.
It was, American companies were doing business with China at the time. Then the American government stepped in and put sanctions on them over it:
Following China’s violent suppression of political protests in June 1989, the US and other governments enacted a number of measures against China’s violation of human rights. The US suspended high-level official exchanges with the PRC and weapons exports from the US to the PRC. The US also imposed a number of economic sanctions. In the summer of 1990, at the G7 Houston summit, the West called for renewed political and economic reforms in mainland China, particularly in the field of human rights.
This is what you can achieve by voting over boycotting corporations.