Good lord, you people act like its the early 1900s.
Yes, our corporations have a lot of investment into China, something both parties in our political system chastise. Get over yourself.
Treating this like The Red Scare, or some massive return of the Democracy v.s Communism cold war is the most ridiculous thing ever.
So, I’m not sure where you’ve been for the last oh, 20-30 years.
But using your job as a platform for political speech and protest, unless that was your job, hasn’t really been allowed. Like anywhere outside of the exception above.
As an employee, you are hired to do a job, not give out your opinion on a situation.
The 1000 year ban was everyday internet bullcrap and was disproven already.
Companies telling their employees to refrain from discussing a political situation is literally normal. Asking them not to post these on social media has been normal for the last ten years or so. I remember back when Myspace was a hit, people were getting fired for embarrassing their company via social media.
A lot of your reasons appear to be based on misinformation or internet gossip, without really understanding how things really work.
If you were to go to your job right now and on work time, make a political protest about something, you’ll more than likely get reprimanded as work isn’t the place for that type of activity.
“haven’t been paying attention to the media for the last few years?”
Given it was in and from and about another country, and the response is about the same for everything else there regarding it means it was bound to happen. Blizzard can’t micro manage every decision made by other companies distributing/ managing their games.
retracting those kind of things become a internal political issue. such things can only be compromised.
of course it puts a company into panic mode. it forces them to “please everyone” which is a contradiction. because it cant be done. the best anyone can do in that regard is don’t end up in a position where you have to. and if you end up there… good luck choosing your losses. =/
unless you do it amongst friends/cool peeps. the (morbid) comedy show that is Trump a nice convo a coworker and I have often. Now another dude is one of those trump backing idiots…so we do this when he is not around.
The point I’m making is that it isn’t really something encouraged or wanted in work places. If everyone is on board then yeah, go right ahead, but those environments are few.
A lot of the jobs I’ve had have social media clauses and will check out your social media, terminating people whose social media could even bring a tiny bit of negative attention to the company.
Me too except for the Classic part. I hadn’t gotten around to that yet and now I won’t be.
Very well said. Great post. Be well.
It’s because many people can see a change coming to foreign shores from China influence and don’t like where it’s going.
It’s like an infection and if people don’t take a stand now it will spread, changing everything and in this case, not for the better.
This reply is why china is what it is.
People throwing their hands up not even trying and saying “can’t duu nuffin”.
Come on bro. You can’t even make an effort? That’s it? Our whole world and your children’s/grandchildren/relatives future is with China ruling it?
Do something. Anything. Just don’t give out that lame response.
No one is saying you can’t do anything. We are saying do something that matters. Contact your congressional representatives. Even if we all cancelled our WoW accounts, China would still be doing China things and we (US) would still be doing just as much trade with China.
But if you are just going to go with the boycotting of companies then yes, Blizzard isn’t even a blip.
Everything matters.
Boycotting makes the biggest difference because when you don’t you literally put money into their military. In China… the military runs the country.
Buy things made in Japan, Taiwan, Philippines, Mexico, United States, literally anywhere but China.
Edit: because it DOES matter
Exactly. Reading through some of these responses to a well said post is depressing.
They’re so dumb, it’s palpable and if most of the population is like this in this nation, then it’s over.
Boycotting the small fish while ignoring the big fish accomplishes nothing. We could all cancel our subs at this very moment and absolutely nothing would change.
OK do nothing then.
I’m not telling you to cancel your sub goober.
You’re making the rather foolish assumption that people are “doing nothing”.
When really, they are doing something, just in different ways.
Bigger picture.
Some things are more effective at tackling the problem than others.
The problem in this situation is China.
I’m am doing something. I did as I advised others to do.
I never said you said to cancel, I said that people boycotting Blizzard won’t make China’s influence any less. Having our laws change actually stands a chance of making meaningful change.
Another well stated post. Some of these people will just refuse to bother with this insidious censorship which is obvious by these new forums.
Instead they’ll insult and make snotty comments to project how much more intelligent they are than anyone else, you’re just the target.
It’s moronic but I’m hoping it’s not the majority that do this. I’m thinking more people than not will see this censorship for exactly what it is and react accordingly.
Anyway, good post. Ty for that.
Not sure if I agree about the boycott but you’re right about the laws.
I’m not so much boycotting Blizzard as I am moving on. While I cancelled before all this happened, I still would have just because of that reaction to an interview.
In fact, I should have long ago because of these social credit forums.
It’s insidious, these changes and they are not for the better. Have a g’day.
I don’t disagree with anyone boycotting, or just leaving in general. Anytime when you are unhappy with a company’s product then the correct thing is to no longer do business with them. I just hope if people are really interested in change, they do more than just stop playing WoW. 
My point is if someone’s idea of, “effort,” in this matter is to just cancel their WoW subscription, that’s not actually doing a thing against China. China will just laugh at Blizzard as it tries to find a middle ground to keep it’s customers outside of China, without actually offending China.
You want to do something about this? Make a sign, gather like-minded people, and go protest outside your local state building. Go to Presidential rallies and hold up those signs. Write to your senators and presidential candidates and let them know this is a cause which we need to address.
Canceling your WoW account of all things? China doesn’t care about that.
“Oh-hoh-hoh, you say stealing is wrong but you probably stole a gumball as a kid! Hah! Because you are a hypocrite, your claim that stealing is morally wrong is now invalid!” smugly walks away