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Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments

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2525 points hownottowrite | 2 comments | 08 Oct 19 09:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.413s | 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. kkarakk ◴[08 Oct 19 10:27 UTC] No.21190639[source]▶
Made me laugh when Apple made a big stink about privacy BUT "chose" to headquarter their messaging servers in China under "Chinese oversight" basically compromising every iMessage user in China.This is of course labelled as "compliance"

Privacy and Encryption don't mean much when the government literally controls the servers

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2. macintux ◴[08 Oct 19 10:48 UTC] No.21190799[source]▶
Users can still E2E encrypt their messages. As long as they choose not to store them in iCloud, they’re safe.