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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: 0.208s | source
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ReptileMan ◴[08 Oct 19 10:01 UTC] No.21190465[source]▶
This is shaping to be fun tactic in the culture war. To force corporations that want to be seen as woke in the west to bow to China which will hurt their image at home.

If someone manages to do it with Nike it will be fun to watch.

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1. wei_jok ◴[08 Oct 19 10:23 UTC] No.21190613[source]▶
Not sure why this is downvoted. I think it's great and we may see users deliberately do such things to get companies to ban them, which leads to bigger publicity and awareness at little expense.

In this case, the player sacrificed the prize money and some e-status, but for the publicity it got, it was probably worth it.