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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: 0.264s | source
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cooperadymas ◴[08 Oct 19 10:21 UTC] No.21190597[source]▶
Is it safe to say we're in the middle of the Software Wars? The headlines have been littered with stories like this lately. From major open source contributors taking down their projects, to Apple, Adobe, and Blizzard.

It's only a matter of time until it's a critical piece of software that can cripple a nation or beleaguer it's people.

If you're looking for positives, maybe this will finally force people to rethink digital ownership.

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1. ehnto ◴[08 Oct 19 11:35 UTC] No.21191084[source]▶
I wish local instances of SaaS were more common. As a consumer it doesn't fill me with glee that a company used cutting edge APIs and integrations that are hosted all over the place. It fills me with concern about their stability and I have to entirely forget about data security. Who knows where it ends up these days. Both physically and in administrative terms, on globally distributed servers and regarding which companies or countries have access to it.