Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments

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

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.

>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

Or just add NSFW in front to bypass age verification

https://nsfwyoutube.com/watch?v=0yXTHODE24Q