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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: 0.203s | source
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alimbada ◴[08 Oct 19 11:24 UTC] No.21191021[source]▶
It's a shame but I feel like the majority of gamers won't care. They'll either be ignorant of this or they'll just shrug and continue playing. I boycotted Activision and by proxy Blizzard when Activision acquired them a long time ago but their continuing success shows I'm part of an extremely tiny minority.
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propter_hoc ◴[08 Oct 19 11:46 UTC] No.21191153[source]▶
Well, currently the Hearthstone and Blizzard discussion forums on Reddit are up in arms.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/blizzard

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ahi ◴[08 Oct 19 13:47 UTC] No.21192231[source]▶
r/blizzard is now locked down.
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hdfbdtbcdg ◴[08 Oct 19 14:39 UTC] No.21192806[source]▶
What? What is happening there?
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flohofwoe ◴[08 Oct 19 14:47 UTC] No.21192883[source]▶
The last message I saw before it was switched to private was a message from the moderators along the lines that r/blizzard is not the right place to discuss politics, and that they'll ban people who post politics there.
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1. shadowgovt ◴[08 Oct 19 15:16 UTC] No.21193173[source]▶
It's inconvenient for moderators of fora when the topic of the forum suddenly takes a political action, if they don't want politics discussed in their forum.