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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: 0.2s | source
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KaoruAoiShiho ◴[08 Oct 19 13:22 UTC] No.21191959[source]▶
Absolutely agree, it's time for American video games to stop publishing in China. It's not worth the Chinese influence on our society.
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mbesto ◴[08 Oct 19 15:11 UTC] No.21193126[source]▶
> It's not worth the Chinese influence on our society.

US shareholders probably disagree.

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zentiggr ◴[08 Oct 19 15:38 UTC] No.21193443[source]▶
Then US shareholders need to be reminded of the fact that they are moral agents as well as financial ones.

The reality is that while a "shareholder" title means you want dividends from your holdings, that title attaches to a real human being or entity run by human beings, and the moral or immoral consequences of your policy as shareholder DOES affect the world.

It's time for shareholders to put their money where their morals are. And for those who choose to support immoral policies to be called on it.

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reroute1 ◴[08 Oct 19 16:06 UTC] No.21193767[source]▶
That could be a big conflict of interest though. What if the intelligent financial decision is not in line with your morals?

I am all for people running away from investing in these companies, but in reality that is a conflicting request of an investor and not something anyone who is focusing on returns will have much patience for or interest in. I just don't think it's going to convince real investors.

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1. zentiggr ◴[10 Oct 19 18:20 UTC] No.21217594[source]▶
Then you've identified the "real investors" who are exactly the class I'm talking about. If money is more important, and the cost to society less important, in their value system, they are as much a part of the problem as the actual perpetrators that they're paying.

A conflict of interest indicates that you have a choice between two goals. Choose money, and you've lost my respect. And business, when it comes down to that.