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Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments

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2525 points hownottowrite | 1 comments | 08 Oct 19 09:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.22s | source
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throwaway2048 ◴[08 Oct 19 10:12 UTC] No.21190531[source]▶
Blizzard is 100% fine with their games having a political message when they think it gives them free brownie points (announcing various characters as being explicitly gay), but are complete total cowards when it might cost them something.
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hug ◴[08 Oct 19 10:16 UTC] No.21190552[source]▶
Being gay isn’t political.
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1. my123 ◴[08 Oct 19 10:18 UTC] No.21190569[source]▶
The whole point is that it is considered as political in quite a few countries. (and even where it isn't, it is considered as such by quite some people)

(yes, this might change in the future, but we're talking about today)