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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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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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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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1. 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-...