Your statement is inherently untrue. Not one of us say that Blizzard is fully right in their decision. At most people believe they took it to far. My stance though is disbelief that now (NOW) is when people get angry at a company/companies that have done the very same thing but were quiet in the past. Two things happened recently and no outrage happened here in the forums. One, a kid gets shot by Chinese police during a peaceful protest. Not one peep here on the forums. Two, Houston Rockets Owner (coach?) makes a public statement calling for the liberation of Hong Kong. Not only did he redact his statement but the Officials of the NBA themselves made public apologies and distancing themselves from the guy. Not one peep on the forums. A young kid winning in HS tournament makes a statement in respect to the HK situation while giggling gets a ban and the prize money taken away. And the forums blow up with righteous fury and people saying that they are unsubbing over something that has been happening for years.
Your problem is that you’re seeing active politics as the same as political in any capacity. Doing nothing is a political statement in itself.
Your whataboutism is an absolute joke.
You do realize the reason people have noticed is because it’s happened with a company they follow, right?
By your logic you are not allowed to complain about anything because there are children starving in Ethiopia. Your “argument” (or lackthereof) literally boils down to, “Other bad things are happening so you can’t criticize a different bad thing.” Which, again, is just whataboutism.
Spare me your fake outrage. The irony of you using an argumentative tactic created by the USSR to defend a billion dollar company that has sided with an authoritarian dictatorship is interesting.
Oh if you knew of the thousands of immoral actions happening around the world at this very millisecond, I think the awareness of it would drive you mad then.
I don’t think anyone’ expected Blizzard to take a stance on the Hong Kong situation. Their silence was fine. The problem is that they took a stance when they decided that a message of support for the Hong Kong protestors from an esports competitor was unacceptable. They sided with the oppressors against the oppressed.
Ah the tried and true, “You aren’t with us, you are against us” argument. If someone sees a murder being committed and doesn’t get involved because he fears getting shot, I guess they should be put to death along with the Murderer.
I mean, if he’s not with the victim, he’s with the murderer… right?
You’re the kind of person that thinks if someone is not extremely vocal about something they’re not upset by it. You keep claiming fake outrage. The world is extremely large and intertwined. If we were to take up arms with everything all the time we’d all be Glenn Beck or Rachel Maddow.
Are you calling people Sith?
You’re missing the point you mongo. I said Blizzard’s prior silence was fine. It’s their active support for the PRC by censoring dissent that crossed the line. In your stupid analogy, this would be akin to helping cover up the murder.
If you actively help that murderer by burying the body for him, then most countries call that “being an accessory”.
“Duress” isn’t a mitigating circumstance when you’re doing it for money, either.
No they didnt. They sided with a rule book, that the gamemaster knew he was breaking.
They didnt take a stance with Hong Kong, even though it seems, they definately do not, since last weeks debacle with Morey, no one wants to be in Hong Kong situation or even talk about it.
Armchair activism at its finest. Blizzard is basically dragged into a super hot political debate and forced to take a stand over something the player could of said over twitter.
So what, do they side with the player? Get banned in China? Shutdown service for millions of Chinese gamers? Fire thousands of employees cause their jobs no longer exist? Take a massive financial hit that will hurt every aspect of the company probably costing more jobs?
Trust me American gamers wouldn’t help them if they did, most already hate them or are playing classic anyways.
So continue to feel good about boycotting Blizz while you sit in your “made in China” chair sipping coffee from your “Made in China” mug. Might as well burn your clothes cause they were probably made in China as well.
whataboutism at its finest.
Blizzard sided with the rulebook that literally says they can ban people for any act that upsets the public. They had to determine that Blitzchung violated that “rule” on their own using their “sole discretion”.
The fact the rule is so vague that people are pointing out Blizz is in violation of it by its wording (barring their discretion) is both hilarious and highlights that the rule is farcically self-serving.
Doing nothing is not a political statement. It is nothing. There are millions of people out there who do their daily routine of work, school, or whatever and they still have their opinions and thoughts. Just because they are not right there marching, protesting, or crying to the heavens that something is not fair or right or just does not mean they are doing nothing.
They interpreted an extremely vague catch-all rule that allows them to ban people who say things that Blizzard “in their sole discretion” finds offensive. The rule standing alone has no meaning and that’s is the point, it’s a catch all so they don’t have to create individual rules for every offensive phrase a person could come up with. And Blizzard determined that the phrase “Liberate Hong Kong” is offensive. That is taking a side. Stop being dense.
Blizzard dragged themselves into this debate with the disproportionate punishment of Blitzchung and the casters.
Which is really the core of the issue here. By issuing such a disproportionate punishment to Blitz, (for context, people cheating at a similar level of play have gotten away with far less of a punishment), Blizzard have essentially sent the message that going offending China is a worse violation of the rules than actually cheating in a tournament setting.
And you are interpreting Blizzards censorship as cutting the stream and splashing the Chinese flag on the stream. When you can simply interpret it as Blizzard protecting themselves and their financial position.
At this point in life I don’t have outrage or fake outrage at all in the whole matter. I stated examples of why I take my position.
On why I could care less about some people who want to express their outrage over one incident but have ignored the others. Only noticing a wrong of the world because of one company is not only being blind but pretty stupid. A lot more to the world than just one thing. Would you be so outraged to find out that your phone and computer were assembled in a Chinese Labor Camp?
You can complain about whatever you chose to. But if that’s all you’re going to do than you’re not going to change anything. Your reference to this being a “whataboutism” does not fit as I made a statement and not referencing another item by bringing into the conversation.
Don’t have “fake outrage” as I am not outraged about something that I do not see changing at all. Not for it standing and existing in the world today and do wish HK their freedom but with how people act in the world today and the expectation that a tweet or post of some kind is going to change things…I seriously doubt anything will happen. So unless you have unsubbed, you are nothing more than a fake outrager playing the SJW card for attention.
Dealing with villains produces villainous results.