I’m going to have to be cynical because I know exactly how media does this. You have 5 people out of the thousands that work at Blizz “walk out” …during their lunch break. They post about it online somewhere to get good boy/girl points online and a media outlet picks it up and writes about it in broad terms that would lead the reader to believe that practically all of Blizz’ employees are striking right now. Meanwhile, most people at Blizz and Blizz management never even noticed and only know about it from some online media story.
Overwatch put a filter in so you couldnt say “Xi” “pooh” in the same post back when a winnie the pooh meme was going around in China.
Imagine bowing down to a government that is literally ethnic and religious cleansing its population and then harvesting their organs.
You are stupid if you think anti chinese totalitarianism is talking “politics”.
Political discussion is within the realm of western democracy. Get real.
Be as cynical as you want. It got the attention they planned on. It got covered by major news sites and was trending.
You’re just another one of those “lol not like it’s going to do anything” type of people. When the reality is, people like you have been completely wrong. This ‘faux outrage’ as some white knights have been calling it, has caused A LOT of bad press worldwide, has had an announcer drop out of Blizzcon, and some employees had a walk out.
If people were as cynical as you, this wouldn’t have even been known
No. I know how these things go. A lot of the outlandish media stories that get people riled up are just manufactured by the writers. They could make a few tweets themselves about a response to some event and then write a story for one of these trash sites like Buzzfeed and say “People outraged by such and such.” Technically the truth, because 2 people are “people” but it’s not at all a stance to have. Whenever I read these kinds of headlines, if not accompanied by photos and video showing an actual happening, I dismiss it. It looks childish otherwise because I know how they “manufacture consensus” by using media to paint things as much larger than they are. Just like online vocal minorities can pack an outsized punch. But when the rubber meets the road, it tends to be an extremely small group.
Also, it doesn’t matter what small tokens of protest will happen. Blizz is posed to benefit from this in China. We don’t matter as much as China does because our market is not growing as fast as theirs. You don’t have to like it, but that’s reality.
So you are saying it has helped the prosters in Hong Kong? The whole point of this should be to shine a light on what is happening in Hong Kong. Looks to me that the focus is more about getting Blizzard to apologize and make restitution. Less about getting correct information out about the Hong Kong protest and ways to get aid or show support for Hong Kong residents.
There’s a sticky at the top of the forum (think it might actually be at the top of all the forums, tbh) that explains the various forum trust levels and how to achieve them.
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You’re obviously twisting words. Most people understand the two go hand-in-hand in this situation. For Blizz specifically it’s that a lot of people want to hear them admit it.
Once again the ‘faux outrage’ as some on these forums call it, has brought tons of attention to the situation in HK. It’s nit just Blizz, but the NBA and now thanks to all the attention its getting, more and more companies are getting called out for their censorship even though they are western based companies.
Less censorship and more attention for HK. Seems like pretty much common sense to me.
Tbh if you don’t see that it’s wrong, you don’t want to.
It is not about being right or wrong. It just seems like more people care about getting Blizzard to admit wrong doing than focusing on Hong Kong. As for censorship this issue cuts both ways. If Blizzard allows for people to voice their political support for Hong Kong then by right they should allow for people to voice their political support for China in this matter as well.
Now in order to remain “neutral” you don’t allow for anyone to voice their support. If someone does you have to punish them accordingly as to be seen as remaining neutral on the issue. What people want is for Blizzard to take a stance and that stance would be in support of Hong Kong by apologizing. China would take Blizzard apologizing as siding with Hong Kong.
Treating a complex situation like this as less censorship/ more attention for Hong Kong is unfair and simple minded.
I’m thinking about unsubbing over it.
They call that a walk out? Looks like a smoke break at a call center.
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Plenty of companies make money and do so ethically.