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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: 0s | source
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a_c ◴[08 Oct 19 14:36 UTC] No.21192772[source]▶
Interesting how an incidence in gaming garner more eye balls on the topic of Hong Kong politics than whole month combined. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Good for the people of Hong Kong.

The topic of Hong Kong didn't struck me as sensational/desperate as it deserves until a Hong Kong friend send me this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yXTHODE24Q Am moved by the clip, especially for the first 50s. It is english sub-ed. Would recommend anyone interested in the topic give it a look

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blhack ◴[08 Oct 19 15:33 UTC] No.21193399[source]▶
I had no idea that that second video would have the effect on me that it did. I'm sitting in my office here crying.
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1. bonestamp2 ◴[08 Oct 19 16:56 UTC] No.21194317[source]▶
Same. I've seen a few of the videos that are used in that video and some of those videos (in longer form) are very powerful too.

For example, that short clip of the blindfolded prisoners on the ground in handcuffs is a drone video that is believed to show religious prisoners being taken to "re-education" camps. Of course, the Hong Kong protesters fear they will also be subject to "re-education" when the Chinese state regains control of Hong Kong as this transition period winds down:

https://observers.france24.com/en/20190925-drone-video-shows...

Also, here is the longer version of the "give me liberty" speech that they used. May be NSFW (coarse language):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLY9BQsd_As