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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: 0.638s | 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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nabla9 ◴[08 Oct 19 10:32 UTC] No.21190677[source]▶
How about Chinese owners?

Chinese Tencent owns 5 percent of Blizzard, if full owner of Riot Games, 48% of Epic Games, 11.5% of Bluehole (Fortnite and PUBG), 5% of Ubisoft. They are also investor in Discord. https://www.pcgamer.com/every-game-company-that-tencent-has-...

AMC is fully owned by Chinese. The largest movie theater chain in the United States is fully owned by Chinese.

Legendary Entertainment Group is owned by Chinese.

Forbes Media sold majority stake to Chinese company.

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1. cryptica ◴[08 Oct 19 12:37 UTC] No.21191545[source]▶
The solution is very simple. The government should take possession of any company that grows beyond a maximum size and distribute the shares to the public.
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2. pbhjpbhj ◴[08 Oct 19 12:45 UTC] No.21191616[source]▶
Best the "commies" by being more communist than they are, love it.
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3. _bxg1 ◴[08 Oct 19 13:41 UTC] No.21192161[source]▶
Today's China is communist in name only. They literally arrested the president of Peking University's Marxist society on ideological grounds: https://news.yahoo.com/china-arrests-marxist-student-leader-...