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Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments

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2525 points hownottowrite | 2 comments | 08 Oct 19 09:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.415s | source
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diveanon ◴[08 Oct 19 10:17 UTC] No.21190558[source]▶
Can we please start a cultural movement that forces large corporations to choose between appeasing Chinese censors and looking like fools to the rest of the west or getting banned in China.

Really seems like a win win scenario.

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nabla9 ◴[08 Oct 19 10:32 UTC] No.21190677[source]▶
How about Chinese owners?

Chinese Tencent owns 5 percent of Blizzard, if full owner of Riot Games, 48% of Epic Games, 11.5% of Bluehole (Fortnite and PUBG), 5% of Ubisoft. They are also investor in Discord. https://www.pcgamer.com/every-game-company-that-tencent-has-...

AMC is fully owned by Chinese. The largest movie theater chain in the United States is fully owned by Chinese.

Legendary Entertainment Group is owned by Chinese.

Forbes Media sold majority stake to Chinese company.

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diveanon ◴[08 Oct 19 10:40 UTC] No.21190726[source]▶
Make them choose between the two markets.

I'm tired of the idea that the Western and Chinese markets can both be appeased the middle of the road morality.

What is happening in HK right now is wrong, and the west has fought wars over this very issue.

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hyperdunc ◴[08 Oct 19 10:47 UTC] No.21190782[source]▶
It's the authoritarian Chinese government insisting on censorship. Not so much the Chinese market.
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ameen ◴[08 Oct 19 11:07 UTC] No.21190906[source]▶
Chinese propaganda is well-spread. I had a Chinese roommate, well educated to boot - PhD in Econ from Columbia, and I could feel the reverence he had for Mao even though his ancestors were landlords.
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yters ◴[08 Oct 19 12:10 UTC] No.21191319[source]▶
Similar experience. He said Mao had to make hard choices as a leader to propel his country forward. I asked him why India didn't have to starve millions to do the same thing.
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whoevercares ◴[08 Oct 19 12:21 UTC] No.21191411[source]▶
After 1949, Mao barely did anything right and I’m surprised if any Chinese born after 90s would still defend him. But I doubt India is such a great example, we probably all have seen photos of the Gange
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BubRoss ◴[08 Oct 19 12:41 UTC] No.21191581[source]▶
Are you comparing a polluted river to the deaths of millions?
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whoevercares ◴[08 Oct 19 12:45 UTC] No.21191613[source]▶
Polluted by dead bodies...
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1. BubRoss ◴[08 Oct 19 17:29 UTC] No.21194706[source]▶
You do realize that floating a family member's body down the Ganges is considered a sacred ritual and that what you just said has nothing to do with mass deaths due to negligence right?
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2. whoevercares ◴[08 Oct 19 22:39 UTC] No.21198064[source]▶
I admit I didn’t know about the ritual part, but just a little google show me this:

-https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unnao_dead_bodies_row

And many sources mention they did this just because they can’t afford proper cremation.

Another funny picture is Train with many people attached outside, not sure if that’s another convention or custom :)