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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: 0s | 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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1. marcosdumay ◴[08 Oct 19 14:49 UTC] No.21192899[source]▶
Isn't this what we are doing here?
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2. diveanon ◴[08 Oct 19 18:24 UTC] No.21195372[source]▶
It needs to be organized, focused, and have real consequence for the companies that choose to stay in the middle.

A couple of snarky tweets isn't going to save hong kong, and taiwan after that.

The writing is on the wall, if we don't stand against China now the rest of the world will stand idly by as they erase 200+ years of liberalism and the greatest improvement in human rights in our species history.