Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments

Absolutely nothing, because in the US we have freedom of speech codified into our constitution.

Unlike China.

> Article 35. Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration.

Which part of their constitution mentions the gulags they sent their muslims/protestors to?

Article 36. Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of religious belief.

That's completely true, except for the fact that none of it is true.

Go to China and openly criticize the government, hand out fliers about Tienanmen square with Winnie the Pooh on it and see what happens.

God forbid you actually are a citizen of China, because as a foreigner you will be put in a detention center until deported. As a citizen you will disappear.

I think GP was responding to the way you said “codified into the constitution” as if that were the main differentiating factor (whereas it’s clearly not, because China also codified freedom of speech).

I've been held in a Chinese detention center for 6 days before, when was the last time you were locked away without access to due process just for expressing an opinion?

I lived in China for several years, and I will never go back. I made a choice to move there to advance my career thinking I could tolerate living in a totalitarian state, and now that I have experienced it I will forever oppose it.

Are you actually trying to claim that China is a free country with freedom of speech?

There is a big difference between saying you are a free country and actually being one. In totalitarian regimes the government is not bound to the constitution, that is why they are called totalitarian.

If you truly believe that China is free, which I doubt, I highly encourage you to educate yourself on the half century of fear and murder that they have systematically used to oppress all dissension.

It is not my responsibility to educate you, but you are arguing against history. History may be malleable in China, but outside of the Great Wall we know what they have done and it is my dream that one day China is held accountable for the atrocities it has committed in the name of "peace and prosperity".

>As a citizen...

Think of all the lives your organs will save!

Being off on semantics isn't really the same as lying, in much the same way as nit-picking isn't widely considered a virtue.

This isn't a joke man, people are dying.

Public mockery of China is a small but important part in fighting against what is happening. Pride is important to them, it's why they banned Winnie the Pooh just because some people said he kinda looked like the party's general secretary.