Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments

The rule is clear :

>> Engaging in any act that, in Blizzard’s sole discretion, brings you into public disrepute, offends a portion or group of the public, or otherwise damages Blizzard image...

It says : "Blizzard is a commercial entity and it doesn't want to be involved in anything else than gaming".

For me Blizzard acts in a very corporate way. There's nothing wrong with that, provided you accept the corporate way is the good way.

If you think Blizzard's action is wrong, then just don't abide to their rules.

Blizzard has no moral, it's a commercial entity and it makes whatever compromise needed to expand its commercial activities.

Let's talk about that on the next tournament, just to see how the rules have been updated.

(try to express political opinion inside Disneyworld, just for fun)

No one is saying that Blizzard has broken laws. People are expressing their displeasure about how Blizzard has chosen to exercise their rights.

I encourage you to hold companies to account for their actions even if those actions do not technically violate any laws.

P.s. Political opinions are on the official schedule of Disneyworld: https://dl3.pushbulletusercontent.com/UW7YGjoleObdVw7HDPeapr...

I don't say Blizzard has broken any law. It hasn't. I just tried to remind people that Blizzard is a private/corporate entity that will not endorse political debate because it may hurt its commercial value.

I'll add that Blizzard is absolutely right in doing so. Because, it clearly can't be an open space for expressing opinions. That's because its values may be in competition with those opinions. So any opinions expressed inside Blizzard stuff would be "tainted" by Blizzard's nature/control. So Blizzard wouldn't be very good at letting opinion being expressed. So Blizzard's decision actually helps to maintain the expression of opinions in place where it is most efficient : the public places, the parliament, etc.

And yes, that holds for FaceBook, Google, etc. Much of Internet is privately held => expressing public opinions over the web is tricky.

Now, following you reaction, I've checked the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, specifically article 19 :

"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."

Which basically says that Blizzard should not oppose the expression of opinion (provided one interprets "media" in a wide way : speech is a medium).

I admit that the more I look into it, the harder it gets...