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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: 0.204s | 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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nabla9 ◴[08 Oct 19 10:32 UTC] No.21190677[source]▶
How about Chinese owners?

Chinese Tencent owns 5 percent of Blizzard, if full owner of Riot Games, 48% of Epic Games, 11.5% of Bluehole (Fortnite and PUBG), 5% of Ubisoft. They are also investor in Discord. https://www.pcgamer.com/every-game-company-that-tencent-has-...

AMC is fully owned by Chinese. The largest movie theater chain in the United States is fully owned by Chinese.

Legendary Entertainment Group is owned by Chinese.

Forbes Media sold majority stake to Chinese company.

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Beltiras ◴[08 Oct 19 11:04 UTC] No.21190893[source]▶
This is what happens when you fund your deficit spending with foreign investors for too long.
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netsharc ◴[08 Oct 19 11:17 UTC] No.21190978[source]▶
That's a too simplistic conclusion based on myth... https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/080615/china...

And these are private companies bought by private investors (ok one could argue it's Chinese government money..), what does that have to do with government deficit?

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1. Beltiras ◴[08 Oct 19 11:22 UTC] No.21191007[source]▶
You think this sort of investment is any different than investment in general? Investors will pick a bucket of investments with differing risk pools like tbills, stocks, bonds etc.