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Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments

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2525 points hownottowrite | 5 comments | 08 Oct 19 09:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.901s | source
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KaoruAoiShiho ◴[08 Oct 19 13:22 UTC] No.21191959[source]▶
Absolutely agree, it's time for American video games to stop publishing in China. It's not worth the Chinese influence on our society.
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Shivetya ◴[08 Oct 19 13:36 UTC] No.21192116[source]▶
American video games? What about American companies that have factories there or other presence there? Hello Apple! Hello Tesla! Hello Google.

Blizzard has been bending over backwards for some time with regards to China but this is the first time I remember them taking action against someone who does not work for them.

the simple matter is, you cannot pick and choose, all the companies must be shamed into not bending to China's censorship because it won't be long before such actions suddenly show in law; not that some of the speech regulations in the EU aren't close as it is with regards to what you can and cannot say with regards to religions

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1. GooglyMoogly ◴[08 Oct 19 15:40 UTC] No.21193461[source]▶
Google is blocked in China for refusing to censor what China wants. Bing works in China.
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2. nolok ◴[08 Oct 19 16:15 UTC] No.21193865[source]▶
And it brings them absolutely no good really, either in good will or cash, which is a good lesson for others not to take the same stand if the country they hail from doesn't do it as a whole.
3. goblin89 ◴[08 Oct 19 16:44 UTC] No.21194179[source]▶
Google Translate, Maps work in China, for example. Google Maps in particular, when viewed within the country, follows ruling party line on where to draw the borders[0], though it is not a practice they apply to China exclusively.

[0] https://qz.com/224821/see-how-borders-change-on-google-maps-...

4. jimclegg ◴[08 Oct 19 17:06 UTC] No.21194425[source]▶
China will consider it a favor if you block your own "offensive" company from the Chinese market.
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5. GooglyMoogly ◴[09 Oct 19 03:06 UTC] No.21199622[source]▶
Google used to obey China's censorship requests, and was allowed in China. Then Google decided to stop obeying the requests, and China blocked Google.

You're saying that China was happy about that because China wanted Google out anyway and needed an excuse? If China didn't need an excuse, China could have blocked Google from the start. China has blocked things it considers offensive without an explicit action from that party (such as Winnie the Pooh).

If Google was obeying China's censorship, what would China find offensive about Google?

Does China find a similar level of offensiveness in the NBA and Blizzard, such that China is disappointed that they censored themselves and thus China doesn't have an excuse to block them?