Yeah… it does. There is no place where “freedom of speech” just disappears. No piece of paper signed can take away one’s God-given rights. You can argue that it wasn’t “responsible”, but that’s not the same as not having the right, period.
Because talking about Trump is a controversial political topic here. Supporting the HK protesters is not. How far are you willing to let foreign powers dictate what can be said in the free world? Taiwan is not China no matter what the CCP would like to believe, they have their own republic. Houston is also not China, shockingly enough. You think Americans will react the same way to free HK as they will to a debate about Trump!?
How about if some Middle Eastern investors decide to start censoring women’s rights issues in movies made in America? The Chinese already delete scenes depicting homosexuality in their own country, if they are dictating terms on foreign affairs to our corporations, why not this as well?
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Very well said.
Would “like” but I’m out of my “like” ration for the day.
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Even Mike Kern didn’t agree with Blizzard
Boy the sheep’s here continue to defend blizzard
Yeah, let me stop you there and clear a few things up.
- Freedom of Speech is not god-given. It is established in the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. Most things involving religion are really not big on free speech unless it fits existing dogma. (See: Inquisition)
- Freedom of Speech only applies to the government, meaning the government can’t arrest you for what you say unless you incite violence, harass people, etc.
- Freedom of Speech does not mean private companies have to put up with you, or let you say what you want on a forum they provide.
- Being banned, disinvited, or fired by a company does not mean you’re a victim of censorship, it means the company doesn’t want to deal with your politics.
- Contracts and waivers actually can be used to sign away your rights. If you actually knew anything about contract law, you’d know this.
- You can ask for arbitration or sue a company if you think a contract is unfair or is being violated. You can’t just ignore the contract without getting penalties.
- Blizzard is an American company, so contract disputes with them would happen in Federal court.
- The tournament was in Taiwan, and run by a local subsidiary, so contract disputes could be taken up with the Taiwanese courts.
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Here’s a video of a student speaking about the abuse they’ve been victim to at the hands of the police. https://streamable.com/cp24u
Another reminder of the side Blizzard has taken.
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No, the side they took was the side of “This is not our problem, we just make video games. Leave us the hell out of this mess!”
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No, they did take a side. They apologized to China on Weibo.
https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/dfkmp1/blizzards_official_weibo_account_just_posted_an/
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Well I suppose if we were to focus on this purely from a business perspective, the Asian market does have a lot to offer Blizzard, but they should focus on their loyal customers too.
You know one thing I really like is how gaming companies from the 80s/90s are still pumping out new platformer games, that shows loyalty and dedication to the fans while also expanding into new markets.
The real question is this, how much does Blizzard need to expand into the Asian market compared to how much they need to maintain their player base etc?
Personally, I’d find a way to do both, without angering the other.
For starters, Diablo Immortal, look, I’m not against mobile games, but if you make a PC version that can download off steam or whatever that would help. That way you keep both your player base happy and still can expand into the Asian market. Not rocket science.
I was shocked that a company like Blizzard, that run HotS into the group because it decided instead of banning botters, feeders and afkers it’d focus on banning anyone that ever hurt someone else’s feelings- would go so far as to ban someone over something they said.
Said nobody ever.
You don’t have freedom of speech with a company- you don’t have it on these forums, in game, etc… freedom of speech refers to a government being unable to lock you up for what you say- but guess what, if you say something honest about Islam, you can get locked up in most western countries, and executed in most middle eastern ones.
The dream of free speech is dead- and everyone that thought it was fine when people not on your political spectrum were being silenced is to blame for this.
At the end of the day- Blizz gave a platform for video games to be played on, they didn’t make it for politics. You’re just as free to be political, as they are to get you off the stage if you’re being political.
Why do you think Blizzard supports this?
Does that mean you support the seizure of Hawaii by the US? Assuming you live in the US now, that means you do, right?
That’s your logic.
Do you even know the history of how Hawaii became a state? I would assume not since it isn’t taught in our public schools and it isn’t like Americans care about history anyway.
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I agree with you wholeheartedly
Dems are Orwellians at best. Marxists know they need to fix the economy first.
Well California in in the US, so my guess is nothing.
Now if it was in China, I suppose they could harvest your organs that weren’t crushed by tanks.
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As cool as it would be to see something like this, nobody is going to spend hundreds of dollars to go to a convention just to get thrown out.
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People who already bought tickets might. If they throw them out, that’s exactly what Blizz probably doesn’t want to happen.
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You act like the entirety of the company supports China when its prob only the higher ups. They aren’t a hive mind, they do have individual thoughts.
What I’m not sure you understand, is that if any company makes a stance for or against China, they’d lose all that profit, and that would mean job losses. You’d take the moral stance, yes, but all those people would still lose their jobs. And Blizz isn’t the only one that caters to China, many do.
Is it BS? Totally. But as someone whose husband lost his job due to giving more jobs to China, I’d rather not see that happen. I think China is their biggest market, and there are loads that work there for Blizzard Taiwan.
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Go home tonight and ask your husband if he would have proudly lost his job to protest Hong Kong and then this might be relevant to the topic.
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Like im starting to think that people that are making this posts are from HK or idk because is getting anoying af.
Is a forum game , if you want to talk about politics go to other place.
Theres a lot of countries where their freedom are out of this world but we are not talking about them.
SO. . .
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Sorry, I’m staying home and baking cookies.
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