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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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curo ◴[08 Oct 19 16:00 UTC] No.21193696[source]▶
I don't understand why that YouTube video requires age verification. As far as I know that prevents it from being played to anyone not logged in, including embeds, and severely limits people from seeing it.

Social media flagging is censorship. More and more people are calling on videos to be flagged, taken down, etc — then we run into instances like this one where we wish the mechanism wasn't in place at all.

I hope HK brings to world back to a recognition of the important of free speech and that the world brings attention back to HK.

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shrimp_emoji ◴[08 Oct 19 16:33 UTC] No.21194072[source]▶
>I don't understand why that YouTube video requires age verification. As far as I know that prevents it from being played to anyone not logged in, including embeds, and severely limits people from seeing it.

Yep. Usually, they play when changing from

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yXTHODE24Q
to

  https://www.youtube.com/embed/0yXTHODE24Q
but not this.

But

  youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yXTHODE24Q
works. :D https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Youtube-dl
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Ajedi32 ◴[08 Oct 19 17:07 UTC] No.21194434{3}[source]▶
Thanks. It's really obnoxious that they make you sign-in to verify your age, rather than just enter your birth date like some other sites. Especially since AFAIK it's impossible to create a Google account these days without giving them your phone number (thus exposing your identity). For politically sensitive videos such as this, such restrictions seem like a particularly bad idea.
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SirLotsaLocks ◴[08 Oct 19 17:29 UTC] No.21194703{4}[source]▶
I'm pretty sure you can, but if you're creating a lot of the mat once they begin to require it.
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1. Ajedi32 ◴[08 Oct 19 18:26 UTC] No.21195390{5}[source]▶
I don't think you can. I tried creating a Google account anonymously once just to see if it was possible. A verified phone number was strictly required and they refused to let me use numbers from any of the anonymized online phone services I tried. Maybe they would have let me skip that step if I was connected over my home IP address rather than TOR, but doing it that way would have sort of defeated the purpose of not giving them my phone number in the first place (anonymity).