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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: 0.201s | 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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narrator ◴[08 Oct 19 11:01 UTC] No.21190877[source]▶
Six Corporations control 90% of the media in America. They can make business decisions to censor whomever they want and they are global corporations doing lots of business in China.
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JumpCrisscross ◴[08 Oct 19 11:17 UTC] No.21190975[source]▶
> Six Corporations control 90% of the media in America

Totally incomparable.

America has the First Amendment. Its government and corporations can be held accountable in courts. Any rando has the capacity to pine off about anything on Twitter. Meanwhile China boasts a centralised bureaucracy literally censoring Winnie the Pooh images because its dictator doesn’t like his resemblance.

Yes, America has a media ownership concentration problem. No, it’s not remotely comparable to Xi’s Beijing.

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1. Synaesthesia ◴[08 Oct 19 12:00 UTC] No.21191251[source]▶
No it’s not comical, considering we’re looking at an American corporation doing the censoring here.