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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: 0.41s | source
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IanSanders ◴[08 Oct 19 12:30 UTC] No.21191494[source]▶
I agree 100% that we should boycott and sanction, however doubt there will be enough people who will, and enough people who care. And I don't blame most for not caring, there are more things to worry about than we have time available. Maybe 1% of hearthstone players will see your comment. Similarly, there are other entities which need to be sanctioned, which you and me won't find out about as it's outside of our areas of interest.

Which makes me believe we need some kind of trusted "morality authority", which would process information similar to this and make informed decisions who to boycott, how and when. Less informed would be able to make an impact without having to do research (which not everyone would do equally well)

Obviously this authority must operate with complete transparency, so that we could verify its decision process when required.

Any hostile actions against it must be treated as a crime against humanity?

Somehow it must be immune from corruption. Perhaps some mechanism to revoke user trust in case of wrongdoings.

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hombre_fatal ◴[08 Oct 19 13:04 UTC] No.21191797[source]▶
> Which makes me believe we need some kind of trusted "morality authority", which would process information similar to this and make informed decisions who to boycott

Just sounds like cancel culture to me. And it has horrible results.

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kryogen1c ◴[08 Oct 19 13:37 UTC] No.21192126[source]▶
Cancel culture is about _using_ censorship to limit free speech, which blizzard purposefully participated in on behalf of China, so we want to stop that limiting and encourage free speech, or at least not immediately ban someone for a year and 0 their prize money.

One fights for censorship, the other fights for freedom. I uninstalled hearthstone, which is the last activision blizzard product I used.

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1. shadowgovt ◴[08 Oct 19 15:11 UTC] No.21193123[source]▶
Right, you cancelled Hearthstone from your life because you don't care for the actions of its creators. Not unlike, say, ceasing to watch a comedian because you don't like how they punch down, or ceasing to book rms for speaking engagements because he's too stressful to deal with.

Don't shy away from it; that's "cancel culture."

(Or, more accurately, "cancel culture" doesn't exist; it's just freedom of association in action ;) ).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szybEhqUmVI

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2. PavlovsCat ◴[08 Oct 19 18:01 UTC] No.21195103[source]▶
> We don't have to argue with anybody. We don't have to curse and go around acting bad with our words. We don't need any bricks and bottles, we don't need any Molotov cocktails, we just need to go around to these stores, and to these massive industries in our country, and say, God sent us by here, to say to you that you're not treating his children right. And we've come by here to ask you to make the first item on your agenda – fair treatment, where God's children are concerned. Now, if you are not prepared to do that, we do have an agenda that we must follow. And our agenda calls for withdrawing economic support from you.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.