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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: 0.409s | source
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diveanon ◴[08 Oct 19 10:17 UTC] No.21190558[source]▶
Can we please start a cultural movement that forces large corporations to choose between appeasing Chinese censors and looking like fools to the rest of the west or getting banned in China.

Really seems like a win win scenario.

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1. kbrackbill ◴[08 Oct 19 10:32 UTC] No.21190678[source]▶
Isn't that already true now? The problem is that most corporations seem to be picking the first option.
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2. diveanon ◴[08 Oct 19 10:41 UTC] No.21190745[source]▶
Only because they are not facing any consequences back home.

It needs to be clear to them that this is a binary choice, you either support totalitarianism or you are against it.