Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments

So we are at the point where American video game developers are banning people from e-sports competitions for their comments over a domestic issue in a foreign country? Because the Chinese government probably didn't like his comments, that counts as 'public disrepute'? This is just wild to me.

It is wild, but it's also part of their own rules: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGVTuRlXkAA0ovF?format=png

Honest question: Can we call this unfair if it was already laid out as part of their rules?

That's a generic catch-all rule that means basically nothing. No one can determine ahead of time what is allowed and what's not under that rule.

He didn't say anything "offensive" or "disreputable" to anyone other than authoritarian regimes, and if that's the standard Blizzard is going by they can fuck right off.

He didn't make some off-hand comment about Hong Kong. He made a deliberate political statement complete with props and all. That very obviously falls under the rule.

That would also imply essentially any kind of public figure who makes a strong political statement would not be allowed to play this game.

It looks to me that it was written with stuff more in line with white supremacy advocation and stuff like that in mind.