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Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments

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2525 points hownottowrite | 7 comments | 08 Oct 19 09:23 UTC | HN request time: 1.019s | source | bottom
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alimbada ◴[08 Oct 19 11:24 UTC] No.21191021[source]▶
It's a shame but I feel like the majority of gamers won't care. They'll either be ignorant of this or they'll just shrug and continue playing. I boycotted Activision and by proxy Blizzard when Activision acquired them a long time ago but their continuing success shows I'm part of an extremely tiny minority.
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abbadadda ◴[08 Oct 19 11:56 UTC] No.21191228[source]▶
At this point it goes far beyond just gamers. From the NBA to Google, this effect is everywhere. To be explicit, the effect is U.S. firms letting China dictate what they do or do not care about on a global political scale.
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1. squarefoot ◴[08 Oct 19 12:25 UTC] No.21191446[source]▶
If a game publisher can (whether directly or not) nuke the job of a journalist for a review and get away with it, I'm not surprised at all when a government does something along these lines.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/03/21/gaming-the-...

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2. mcny ◴[08 Oct 19 12:32 UTC] No.21191500[source]▶
It happened with a journalist on a gun magazine as well. Lifelong second amendment supporter blacklisted for not spewing exactly the party line. This makes me wonder whether the whole right to bear arms things is AstroTurf at this point.
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3. shadowgovt ◴[08 Oct 19 15:13 UTC] No.21193145[source]▶
Do you have more information on this?
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4. mcny ◴[08 Oct 19 15:20 UTC] No.21193231{3}[source]▶
Edit: his name is Dick Metcalf

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/05/business/media/banished-f...

https://archive.fo/v5b1x (use this link)

5. gowld ◴[08 Oct 19 15:24 UTC] No.21193282[source]▶
The NRA has clearly converted to an arm Republican Party.

The GOA competes with the NRA because they find the NRA more pro-Republican than pro-gun

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_Owners_of_America

I'm not sure if there is a gun organization that promotes more nuanced theory of partially-limited gun rights but not just shilling for a party.

6. RulingWalnut ◴[08 Oct 19 18:24 UTC] No.21195360[source]▶
Gerstmann's firing was widely reported at the time, he immediately turned around and created an influential gaming website that's still successful today, and Kane and Lynch didn't do well. Not a great example.
7. abawany ◴[08 Oct 19 22:43 UTC] No.21198090[source]▶
Businesses too: there has been massive hatred directed at Dick's Sporting Goods when it changed its arms sales mix in response to a large shooting last year [1]. Gun makers such as Springfield took heat for trying for stepping even a smidgen out of line [2] resulting in an abrupt volte-face.

[1] https://www.racked.com/2018/5/10/17339690/dicks-sporting-goo...

[2] https://gunstoday.com/why-is-everyone-boycotting-springfield...