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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: 0.001s | 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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diveanon ◴[08 Oct 19 10:40 UTC] No.21190726[source]▶
Make them choose between the two markets.

I'm tired of the idea that the Western and Chinese markets can both be appeased the middle of the road morality.

What is happening in HK right now is wrong, and the west has fought wars over this very issue.

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hyperdunc ◴[08 Oct 19 10:47 UTC] No.21190782[source]▶
It's the authoritarian Chinese government insisting on censorship. Not so much the Chinese market.
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esailija ◴[08 Oct 19 11:25 UTC] No.21191025[source]▶
authoritarian government is a tautology
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hyperdunc ◴[08 Oct 19 11:35 UTC] No.21191085[source]▶
Different forms and examples of government exhibit relatively different levels of authoritarianism. Communist governments are invariably more authoritarian than liberal democracies.
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esailija ◴[08 Oct 19 11:52 UTC] No.21191192{3}[source]▶
If that's true then your comment still doesn't make sense. As there cannot be non-authoritarian government, calling a government authoritarian makes objectively no sense and is just meant to provoke emotions obviously.
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1. hyperdunc ◴[08 Oct 19 13:23 UTC] No.21191988{4}[source]▶
All government is authoritarian but not to an equivalent extent. From a liberal point of view the current Chinese government is relatively authoritarian, as evidenced by many things including recent examples of censorship.