As I know, they are not blizz employees, they just stopped cooperation.
In other companies while you are free within your right to have freedom of speech, you can’t go around using your company/job’s platform to voice your opinion on some political matter. You work for that company which means you are by extension an image of that company.
I worked for a conservation corps for a while and when I was wearing the employee shirt I wasn’t allowed to sully the image by doing anything derrogatory ie flipping off people when crossing the street because my work was right there. It’s in a lot of people’s employee handbook that you cannot do actions that will sully the image of the company. You are still free by any means to protest something, use your freedom of speech right, just not do something that will sully the company or attach a bad image.
I’d bet hundreds of people - not just Blitz - have tried to use some company’s name or platform to voice their political concern and have been fired for it. Blitz isn’t even an employee but still had his repercussions.
Go ahead all of you. When you get to work, see if they have some rule against political stance by use of company grounds or something along those lines.
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I’m not getting into that. That knowledge will only come from experience and study. You will know one day.
If they wanted to keep out of it and not get involved, then they should have restricted questions to just the match, and not effectively encouraged him to speak out.
When you’re a caster, you are representing the company. Company representatives almost always have a boilerplate section in their contracts saying that if you screw with the company’s image or standing, then they can and will fire you.
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I was literally asking you that though.
I mentioned this in another post but if you are saying money is the root of all evil, why are you looking for something to be evil? There’s already enough bad in this world, why go lookin for an excuse to call something it? I try to withhold judgement and look for good ;/
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Yup there you go, company reps is what I was lookin for in my post lol
I’d still be interested in hearing what you propose instead of money, Zarlea. I know many think tanks have tried over the years, but a currency system seems to provide the most flexibility.
Now, if you want to talk about globalism and the lack of global labor standards and wages, and the fact that modern so-called globalists don’t want a world for everyone – they want a global plantation, that’s a pretty good starting point for curing the money-driven ills of the world.
So-called “free trade” NAFTA, CAFTA, etc. were nothing more than means of depressing labor in first world countries. Again, lacking global wages and labor standards, how could it have produced any other result?
And this needs to change or at least not allow China to influence The US entertainment. We should not have to censor ourselves because another country can’t handle criticism. If they allow that criticism the citizens of China will wake up and realize they are cattle to the government.
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If you look deeply enough into the NBA’s controversy going on just prior to this one then it starts to make sense why Blizz made this panic move.
NBA teams are in China, charity events like one for the Special Olympics have been cancelled. Scheduled exhibition games with Chinese teams cancelled. Scheduled preseason games that were to be televised there no longer going to be televised. Facilities that were set aside for practice "no longer available. Giant billboards featuring the likeness of NBA stars and the leagues logo being taken down. Again famous names Like LeBron James are IN China and they (the Chinese govt.) are pulling this crap.
All because one general manager of one team showed a more timid support for Hong Kong. Blizz is in panic mode. They have staked so much on this misadventure in China, as has the NBA but the NBA is in MUCH better shape to handle the fallout financially. As the old saying goes, Lie with dogs and you will get fleas (paraphrasing). Blizz needs to fleabomb themselves before it’s too late.
I use to work on F-14’s for Northrop Grumman…I also worked for US Navy as a civilian airplane mech…in both cases I had to sign NDA’s that are still to this day in effect on me. Can I freely talk about the work I did…nope I can’t…rules are rules.
As I said it came out wrong. I didn’t say anything about replacing money I wasn’t trying to. I was saying money worship is evil.
Are you kidding? The US, the corporate media and FB twitter and IG censor people every day right here in the USA. For nothing more innocuous than expressing a political view that deviates from the mass media’s agenda.
All of this crying about censorship in China, where it has gone unabated literally for decades, while right here, people are censored, vilified, name-called and even lost jobs because of the political views they hold. PU LEEZE.
Do give me some examples. I want to see you out yourself. I’ll wait.
So blizzard should be absolved if they demonize Hong Kong because “they need to abide by China’s rules sorry guys”
China’s laws aren’t moral. Why should we accept a American company abiding by them? Your priorities are so screwed towards “What is legal” that you’ve entirely lost the moral ideals of right and wrong and it’s sad.
That wasn’t their job. Their job was to interview him. He was going to push the issue, and regardless of if it was moral or not to do so (it was) they allowed him to speak as an interviewee. Firing people for doing their job because you don’t like the outcome is completely wrong.
Blizzard made a political action towards all three individuals. The message supporting Hong Kong is not immortal, trying to separate yourself from it is.
Breaking rules isn’t automatically wrong. Enforcing rules against a just cause is.
It was at their sole discretion, and that means they could have chosen to ignore it. Nobody was pointing a gun to Blizzard’s head and telling them “ban this player”, nobody was forcing them to enforce this incredibly vague and unlawful ToS. They did it to appease China. And that is wrong.
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Absolutely. Nothing about Blizzards motives here is complicated.
They did what they did to send a message. That message was that they’re willing to tolerate cheating before they tolerate anyone offending China.
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I get pulled over for speeding, technically I’m at fault but the cop can just give me a warning. Blizzard has the discretion here you are absolutely right.
Arguments can be made on either side. Evidently there is no unanimity on this and no “right answer.”
https://www.polygon.com/2019/10/9/20906320/overwatch-mei-blizzard-hong-kong-protest-banned-memesPersonally, I’m really hoping this takes off. I hope the Chinese, or far more likely the Hong Kongers, pick it up and run with it. We’ve already seen how China went after Winnie the Pooh, I wonder what they’d do to Mei? I mean, they had Winnie assassinated by a thistlehead with a bad haircut and a mustache.
Did someone cheat in the competition and go unpunished? This, I haven’t heard.
Compare Blizzard to South Park.
I’ll always love South Park.