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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: 0.199s | source
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mwyah ◴[08 Oct 19 10:00 UTC] No.21190456[source]▶
Seems reasonable that they don't want to allow players to push their politics using the official Blizzard streams. They are free to do so in their spare time.

What do you think Blizzard would do if some guy wore a MAGA hat in an official stream?

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atroche ◴[08 Oct 19 10:17 UTC] No.21190559[source]▶
It’s reasonable from the perspective of maximising profit, sure. And it’s true that they’re (as far as I know) consistently applying a rule they set out a long time ago.

But that doesn’t make it the right decision, morally. Sometimes rules should be broken.

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ryanlol ◴[08 Oct 19 10:19 UTC] No.21190581[source]▶
>And it’s true that they’re (as far as I know) consistently applying a rule they set out a long time ago.

Have they ever enforced this rule in the past? If not, it's difficult to speak of consistency.

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1. atroche ◴[08 Oct 19 10:35 UTC] No.21190693[source]▶
I think it also hinges on whether or not previous players have made “offensive” statements before.

If it’s only happened once and they’ve punished it once, I think that’s as consistent as possible.

Although of course there’s a lot wriggle room re definition of “offensive”, which muddies the waters.