Wrong. He was originally, and specifically protesting police brutality. Fortunately, police brutality happens very often in music as opposed to real life, encompassing maybe a percentage point or two of total violent acts at most.
He later claimed to be a victim of the response to he kneeling as to why he couldn’t get off the bench or on a new roster.
So here’s a question. With protesters using Mei as a symbol with the goal of getting Overwatch banned how will Blizzard react if it succeeds and the protesters move on to getting the rest of Blizzards games banned?
the rules were broken. the actions taken was entirely within Blizzards right to do so. but the severity of the action went over board.
the public statements being different, one of which containing a political view, amplifies a political agenda.
I am very concerned where the demonization of China could lead to be honest.
I will be blunt, some of the bogan-infested suburbs in my country could use a bit of a social credit scoring if it will purge them of the undesirable types, we could learn a thing or two from China.
I’m all for individual freedom and liberty, but freedom needs to come with a price, and that price is you leave other people to their business.
I dunno, something that helps you evade PRC’s police is probably a good thing.
Would you say the same thing if it were an app that helped people hide from brownshirts? Would it then still be a reasonable request?
Blizzard punished someone who didn’t deserve anything very well
Chung He does not know how to read
Yes, and the reason they went overboard was to “protect the pride of our country (China)”.
Well said, Prime Minister Chamberlain. Peace in our time!
I heard about that. I don’t use Apple products and I’ll be sure to never use them in the future.
Because working against the fight against tyranny is a bad thing. If China was committing genocide and harvesting peoples organs, we would expect our corporations to be against that…wait…
I’ve never used Apple because of the reek of hipster that wafts off of them. Glad I never started, either, seeing as they are just another Chinese sycophant.
Tell me one thing friend … how old are you and do you have any idea how corporations work in different countries ?
Any company located in different country but their own has to obey that country laws. If that said company act against that country it will be closed and forced to move out. Same goes for any other business, they have to obey, its simple as that. If that said company has an event and on that even someone calls for riot or revolution in that country, the company has to act according to laws of the country they are located. For this reason company have rules.
The guy broke the rules and blizzard branch which located in China took actions. Their actions aren’t controlled by Main blizzard office. If people from main office not happy with what happened, they will ask for report and start investigating, which takes time.
And all of you acting like its against MAH FREEDOM!!! … for love of god grow up and perhaps go finish school or learn a thing or two about business.
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It’s not PRC police. That’s Hong Kong’s police. Secondly, if you aren’t pillaging, assaulting, or ignoring warnings to disperse, Hong Kong’s police will ignore you completely.
Prove me wrong.
in the end blizzard acted correctly
I have cancelled my WoW subscription and will not be playing Blizzard games anymore. There is a clear line between morality and profit and Blizzard has made an obvious choice in the matter.
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Corporations are like dogs. They have no morality; they are pure id. Sometimes you just have to take their toys away before you can properly housebreak them. Forcing them to lose the Chinese market is like to make them stop doing all the crappy things they’ve been doing just to stay in the Chinese market.
I think people who reply with the argument that he broke contract and point to their very vague clause, that essentially is “if we or anyone in the world doesn’t like what you say we have all rights to remove you”, seem to be ignoring the fact that not only did they punish the person who sure broke the rules by banning him for a whole year (overboard), they fired the 2 casters doing the interview. For doing an interview, they had nothing to do with blitzchung’s actions and were fired for essentially being at the same place as him. That’s something you can’t even argue in their favor of, unless you’re morally bankrupt.
This whole outrage culture slacktivism is annoying.
Are there people in China and Hong Kong that have a serious issue they need to resolve? Absolutely.
Do they need the United States telling them how to solve their problems? Absolutely not.
If you live in Hong Kong or China, or have family there, I empathize with you. I hope they resolve their issues with as little violence as possible.
As far as the Hearthstone caster getting banned. Well duh, when the company you work for elects to take a politically neutral stance and you use their public platform to air your personal political beliefs…you gonna get fired. If Bob Costas is gonna get canned for talking about concussions during the Super Bowl obviously this guy was gone.