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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: 0.199s | source
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tomp ◴[08 Oct 19 11:17 UTC] No.21190973[source]▶
China is very smart. They saw what was happening in the West - oppression of freedom of speech on account of "hurt feelings" - and applied the same principles for their own nefarious purposes ("hurt Chinese feelings" a.k.a. political censorship).

Literally noone could have seen this coming. /s

edit: XCabbage better explains what I was trying to say. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21191253

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1. Grue3 ◴[08 Oct 19 15:14 UTC] No.21193157[source]▶
Yep. All the "it's a private company, they can ban whoever they want" arguments have perfectly primed us to the current state of affairs. Just another reminder that speech you don't like should be protected before it will inevitably result in speech you do like being suppressed.