Those are not democratic socialist countries, they are social democracies.
To simplify it for you, one is socialism with a dash of democracy, the other is democracy with a dash of socialism
How could i care about a cause that the man leading didnt even care about?
words have meaning. The rule blizzard themselves quoted says that in regards to the public. IF whatever they do makes blizzard look bad to the public then the rule applies. However the public has shown overwhelming support for what was said and the chinese government are not the public so their opinion should not influence the rule.
I swear, you can tell instantly who has actually read the rule, and who hasn’t.
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Just as an FYI, there are employee owned corporations in all of those countries, too. And their governments give out business loans all the time.
Oh no how scary!
Except under socialism the only option is the government, as private enterprise doesn’t exist. Those companies today that function off of government funding chose to do so, and fill a specific niche. So no, not socialism OR communism, “comrade”
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Blizzards hurting their image right now, so maybe they should be banned? 
If were following rules and all, Blizzard.
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You mean some chinese blizzard employees who might be patriotic, if not confused said something that Activision Blizzard as a corporation didnt say??
They are capitalist countries. Go ask them.
I’m willing to bet I can go and invest capital in exchange for shares in their companies right now.
aka, capitalism.
What makes you think the stock holders don’t want to keep china happy?
Yes you are right, not many people here would be talking about it. However Bloomberg would have just reported Blizzard had been banned from operating in China, all contracts and projects would be cancelled. Stock price would take a 30%-50% hit instantly.
But at least Blizzard would be supporting free speech right? Who cares how many billions of dollars they lose? At least you feel good. Any executive would laugh in your face for making such a suggestion.
Emphasis mine. That was posted on Blizzard’s official Weibo account, albeit in Chinese. I don’t know if referring to China as “our country” is simply a quirk of the less-than-perfect Google machine translation, but if Blizzard, an American company, did in fact refer to China that way, then that is borderline treasonous.
They probably do, morally bankrupt, the lot of them. Business types have a lot of sociopaths. They excel in the business environment.
china isn’t happy. It will never be happy. Trying to make it happy is a fool’s errand.
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hahaha. you would be too if you knew that under the concept of workers paradise, more people have been ruthlessly slaughtered, starved enmasse, enslaved, even buried alive, murdered and parted out to be sold to rich people who need transplants, than mr.hitler ever dreamed of.
i have a friend who thinks money is the problem. she thinks we should all make stuff for free and give it away to each other for free and have robots do the jobs we dont want to. its a nice idea but as history has proven, nice ideas are never nice for long without laws that limit what the government or your fellows can do to you as an individual. people are prone to want to vote away your individual liberties.
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Well this thread has really taken off.
Again, the rule can be boiled down to:
“Don’t do anything that makes you look bad, don’t do anything that pisses people off, don’t do anything that makes us look bad.”
When you are competing in eSports for a company, you are a representative of that company. How you act reflects on the company who is hosting you. When Blitzchung abused his position and co-opted Blizzard’s platform to spread his personal message, that not only made him look bad (for creating political drama), it also pissed people off (yes, the Chinese are people too, and there are plenty of them that support their government, just like there are plenty of Americans who support theirs) and it made Blizzard look bad, because that statement could have been perceived by the public as Blizzard taking a political stance.
He broke all three clauses of that rule. He got punished. End of story.
Well yeah, they nuked all the other threads leaving only this one lol
How about don’t simplify it for me? If a country uses socialist means of production and ruled by socialist government, it’s socialism.
Don’t be jealous the best countries in the world in terms of individual living are socialist.
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