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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: 0.415s | source
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zygimantasdev ◴[08 Oct 19 10:00 UTC] No.21190462[source]▶
South Park is spot on this season. You could say they are good with predictions, but I think they just gave different perspective to something that already has been happening (episodes on China censorship)
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bdibs ◴[08 Oct 19 10:10 UTC] No.21190516[source]▶
While I agree they’re spot on, it’s not like this is a new issue.
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1. nfRfqX5n ◴[08 Oct 19 11:50 UTC] No.21191169[source]▶
true. blizzard has even done this with world of warcraft back in the day. to launch it in china they had to remove all skeleton models
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2. walshemj ◴[08 Oct 19 19:34 UTC] No.21196231[source]▶
Which is quite frankly bizarre has there ever been a rational argument put forward as to why skeleton are so tabu.

This would be like the USA demanding all mentions and images of Jiangshi - The hopping zombie/vampire undead where removed.