Okay so that’s what happened with viacom.
Well done poster above
Missed in all of this is Blizzard could have handed out the same punishment but also made a very strong statement of American ideals.
As could all of those companies.
Remember everyone corporations are people now. Cowardly terrible ones but people.
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I don’t feel like using Blizzard’s public platform to talk about the political climate of a nation during a broadcast is something small.
Then I guess I’m just confused as to the point of your protest. What is your end goal? If it’s not helping the people of Hong Kong, what’s the point in being mad?
Okay, we’ve already covered both you questions.
Scroll up, read through our conversation. Get back to me.
Hearthstone rules (updated 9/18)
Section 6.3(b) A player may not, during any Tournament, commit any act or become involved in any situation or occurrence which brings him or her into public disrepute, scandal or ridicule, or shocks or offends the community, or derogates from his or her public image or reflects unfavorably upon Blizzard, the player community, Hearthstone, or any other products, services, or sponsors of Blizzard.
Emphasis mine. When you’re part of a tournament, league, or whatever, you are reflecting upon the organization, and your conduct ‘on set’ is expected to make the organization look good. If you don’t do that, the company can send you to the curb.
In the penalties section, all the penalties given to the player are listed as possible outcomes.
The casters facilitated the protest, and egged him on. If they had restricted their questions to the match, and not aided him, they would still have jobs.
If screwing one guy over due to something so tiny and pathetic as him saying a political slogan is a top tier priority for them, why would any sane person do business with China, to begin with? Why would you throw away your principles, you soul, and the love and respect of your fans, just for some China bucks? Especially since, if China was going to kill Blizzard’s business relations from this ONE KID saying this one slogan, it is quite clear that China will eventually find a reason to ban Blizzard anyway.
Trying to get Blizzard to grow a sack and stand up for American values like “Freedom of speech” and not SocJus values like “censorship” and “greed”. To unbend the knee.
And this is helping do that. By causing a raging firestorm of fury, we can hopefully draw the attention of the government (we already have Rubio and that other guy from Oregon), this is also linked to the NBA, Vans, and Apple bending the knee and self-censoring their services or products to protect their cash flow from an evil Socialist dictatorship that commits genocide, while using slave labor and brainwashing to pump out cheap crap.
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It doesn’t change that this was a show of force for China. Thats what a lot of people are unhappy with. They didn’t have to go so far. They did and now blizzard pays the price. Sucks to be anyone effected by it but maybe they wont be so eager to suck… well you get the idea.
So why does the company get to espouse these good ideals, Everyone has a voice, think globally and add in the LGBT characters when really there was no reason to define anyone? For good looks they did that. But the moment someone comes and challenges those good ideals suddenly they have to come down harder than Bill Cosbys career.
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LOL you think any of the clown show in Congress is going to stop this? DiFi is practically a Chinese asset, for one. Many US pols have Chinese ties and investments.
Laws prohibited dealing with the Na zis during wwii
Laws prohibited dealing with south africa during apartheid
Business went on as usual anyway. Won’t be any different with China.
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Thank you for this list, I absolutely love it. Enlightening. Everyone is mad, but that is the way things work in business—everyone caters to the most sensitive, most authoritarian/restricted, lowest common denominator. We’re seeing it on a larger scale over in China now, but it happens here in the United States as well.
In every movie made in Hollywoodland they push the message of the most sensitive, most easily offended group in America. Comedy is nearly dead because of it, big businesses must succumb to the demands, to some extent, of the loud mouth, boycott inciting, virtue signalers or get crushed.
It happens plenty in America, but many people refuse to see.
I wish it were different, but we see it here in our own country. China is just an exaggeration of certain groups in America.
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I agree Syzzyt.
Oh by the way, if this is all going to be about boycotting certain regimes that do shady things you don’t like…
Well let’s see, Saudi Arabia anyone? No, you don’t care about that countries poor records on women’s rights. Because they have the oil and we want their stuffs.
Because company mission statements and mottos in publicly traded companies are all just code for “We want more money”. If you believed otherwise, you haven’t been paying attention to any company ever since the invention of the stock market.
Its not unreasonable to want to take a company at face value of their values. Its also not unreasonable to break these companies through PR pressure if they forsake those statements.
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Every time I log into your games I have a moral quandary. I like your games but I don’t like that I’m supporting a company that doesn’t support human rights. Can Blizzard make a statement in the very least about supporting human rights? If I don’t hear something like that soon I’m going do my best to take my entire community to a different game.
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It is true Hollywood leans left and that is a problem, but this is a blatant effort by an authoritarian regime to force its worldview into a wide range of American and allied countries media and even basic services companies. They are using money as a weapon to censor our media. I’m starting to see Trump’s point of view in regards to capital controls and more for Chinese businesses. Even if they are private corporations and not SOE’s they still do the CCP’s bidding.
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Unreasonable? Perhaps not. Hopelessly naive? Definitely.
That part of the post is in response to people trying to guilt trip and condemn those who just want to play their damn video games.
I don’t care how harsh the punishment was, Blizz made the rules, dude broke the rules, and if what some people are saying are true the punishment for breaking the rules was listed with the rules. Dude knew what he was doing; he can’t say he was ignorant. Blizz wanted to keep politics out of their games and the guy forced them into a situation where they’re screwed regardless of what they do. It’s not a video game company’s job to give a crap about what’s going on the world; only to make and sell video games. If Blizzard decides to get rid of the rule to ban politics, any and all politics regardless of the severity of the topic, because Free Speech, then I better not see a ton of threads here full of people whining if someone at the next tournament decides to scream, “TRUMP 2020!”
I support Hong Kong and I hope the people there are victorious, I really do, but at the same time the harsh truth is that it’s not my problem. It’s not Blizzard’s problem. Dude forced it to be Blizzard’s problem, and most of the people here giving Blizz crap are just a bunch of virtue signalling armchair warriors who will forget all about this when they find some other stupid thing to pretend to be angry about. They are no better than the people they are condemning.
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You haven’t read the rule, have you?
I support Hong Kong and I hope the people there are victorious, I really do, but at the same time the harsh truth is that it’s not my problem. It’s not Blizzard’s problem.
Tbh, I feel sorry for America see reality is, you got too choices, either stick with Trump who is an Israel loving, Iran hating maniac, or vote for the democrats that might say they hate China but in reality they are as communistic and Marxist as they come anyway I’m sorry if that sounds harsh, but I wouldn’t live under a party that’s probably funded by George Soros with Antifa footsoldiers that’s idea of ‘peace’ is trashing property and using violence against those that deem ‘far right’.
That’s not a good way to win an argument.
The NBA backed the GM that said the things he did, people at the games were covering their faces. That is a different issue though, had it been a broadcaster for CBS that gave his opinion during the game he probably would have been fired.
Freedom of speech does not extend to representing your employer on a public platform such as casting a Hearthstone tournament. If Chris Collinsworth decides to either bash Trump or talk about how awesome Trump is this Sunday night he will get fired before you could blink.
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Others were punished for the same thing, before. However, because their words didn’t offend daddy China, they were given vastly lesser punishments in comparison. So, no, breaking the rules isn’t the problem here. The problem, is that the punishment was disproportionate to the crime and was done to please a foreign Communist state.
I’d love that, actually.
Yes, because Blizzard censoring their products to appeal to an autocratic state, totally isn’t YOUR problem… Kek. It doesn’t matter how far you shove your head into that sand, you can’t ignore the fact that China is using our corporations in a media and trade war against the United States.