While not an untrue statement, I have some very very dear friends who are not safe.
Their fight will continue whether we are looking at it or not.
I can’t pick up a rifle and go fight. There’s no war to join. But I can do what I can. And I will continue to do that until I am unable to do so.
I’ve unsubbed, and I support Access Now’s accusations of Human Rights Abuses against Blizzard. This was like Blizzard’s equivalent of shelving Christmas bonuses, just to save a buck, and substituting it with a “Jelly of the Month” Club membership.
If I had a hose, I’d beat Kotick with it.
I agree man, America is no saint either. We should be cracking down on those organ farms.
And those who think they have just cause to be angry with Blizzard are no better than those they accuse because Blizzard is caught up in a situation that they can do little about. They said they can handle things better in the future, they said they are learning. They said they are open to dialog. That wasn’t good enough. They were attacked, called liars after trying to make things right. If nothing else this has taught me that the gaming journalists are no better than the main stream. Blizzard has a pretty good track record when it comes to situations of justice and treating people with respect. Is it the best? I don’t know. I know it is better than many companies though. And to say otherwise and to accuse especially when there are forces way beyond what Blizzard alone can deal with is unfair. It is just as evil and immoral in my book. And I am not going to back down from that and don’t need to say anything further.
No, we should be cracking down on those buying organs on the black market.
Like the drug trade, you are like the politicians who think going after the dealers will change anything.
Need to hit the customers.
Customers and the large scale providers.
Distributors will just open up shop somewhere else, which is literally what they’ve done for years.
More like PR people positioning themselves into a situation to show that they are ‘necessary’, at least through Blizzcon.
I really wish they would start deleting all these threads and banning people who make them.
Enough already.
Dude that first girls laugh though
you cant do anything contact your local official china is not a free country.
Benefiting what other people and how? Protesting Blizzard will do nothing for HK nor will it change how China treats it’s people. So where’s the benefit?
The benefit is they get more self-validation by declaring their outrage
What movement has ever been successful that didn’t have awareness spread through smaller protests?
Would you have said the same to the suffrage protests? Howbout the civil rights movements?
An individual movement or expression of protest doesn’t have to solve it all on its own to be beneficial. That has never been how movements work.
And turning on the individual that started this whole thing?
So you admit it will have no benefit? Are they sure what they’re upset at? I mean they’ve now turned on Blitz himself.
The irony being the outrage at the outrage crowd being in full force only having their disapproval of certain protests to declare. At least the protests are about something important, not just their screen time being mildly inconvenienced.
You keep saying this, without actually acknowledging what we have been talking about.
You’re making those self-righteous judgments again there kiddo.
Blitz making his peace with blizzard does not mean everyone else has to. Blizzard still condoned themselves a certain way and that puts them in the court of public opinion. Blitz was never anyone’s leader in this.