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Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments

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2525 points hownottowrite | 3 comments | 08 Oct 19 09:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.549s | source
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phtrivier ◴[08 Oct 19 10:14 UTC] No.21190542[source]▶
Massive Streisand effect incoming.
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oh_sigh ◴[08 Oct 19 10:53 UTC] No.21190827[source]▶
The only problem is China is too big to care. Streisand effect only affects those people where a spotlight from a small percent of the internet heavily affects them
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1. benj111 ◴[08 Oct 19 11:33 UTC] No.21191077[source]▶
I interpreted it as in relation to Blizzard.
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2. zipwitch ◴[08 Oct 19 12:00 UTC] No.21191254[source]▶
Yeah. China won't ultimately care whatever we do, but Blizzard can me made to feel it. Their own annual gaming convention is coming up in less than a month, and hopefully this will backfire on them badly.
3. phtrivier ◴[08 Oct 19 16:39 UTC] No.21194134[source]▶
I was also mostly referring to potential bad effect on Blizzard.

However, I would find it funny if the whole episode made some of your "average" Blizzard-gamer care about China and HK.

(Emphasis on the "average" here: I obviously have no data, but I suspect that the average Blizzard-game player is a young teenage boy who's spending too much time playing with friends to be passionate about international Asian politics. Again, using an hyperbole here. I know you exist, DoTA-geopolitics-nerds.)