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Edited by Kanashimi510:
10/9/2019 10:46:45 PM
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Blizzard Taiwan deletes Hearthstone Grandmasters winner's interview due to his support of Hong Kong protest. Revokes prize money, bans him from game, and fires both casters involved.
Given bungie's ties to the Chinese company NetEase, I am wondering where they stand on this topic.
Bungie puts themselves out there as a company that believes "everyone's voice matters". Would they back that up in this case or would they side with blizzard?
I would like to think that bungie wouldn't sink to blizzard's level of hypocrisy, where social issues are high priority...... up until it threatens to cost them a little communist cash.
[u][b]Edit/UPDATE:[/b][/u]
Apparently, some Blizzard employees have staged a walkout because of the company's actions. Nice. Hopefully, they don't get fired as well.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/blizzard-employees-staged-a-walkout-to-protest-banned-pro-hong-kong-gamer
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13 RepliesI've lived in China, Shanghai infact, for a year to study Mandarin. And while I truly love Chinese culture, history, it's food, and especially it's people, the CCP scares me. It is, whether we see it or not, the greatest threat to basic human rights and informed democracy, that the West has ever faced. No other political entity in recent history, N@zi Germany or Soviet Russia, were as entwined in our economy and politics as China has become. They were always existential, far away threats we could simply resist. But China is a different story, their money and influence has seeped into every facet of our society, and while the influence of Chinese culture is far from evil, the CCP is. It is a cancer to culture, especially it's own. And it is the money and influence of that political entity that is infecting the rest of the world. Our Outlook is grim.
