Discussion

• Vox Zack Beauchamp on x

  One of America's biggest gaming companies is acting as China's censor

• @ronwyden Ron Wyden on x

  Blizzard shows it is willing to humiliate itself to please the Chinese Communist Party. No American company should censor calls for freedom to make a quick buck. https://kotaku.com/...

• @marcorubio Marco Rubio on x

  Recognize what's happening here. People who don't live in #China must either self censor or face dismissal & suspensions. China using access to market as leverage to crush free speech globally. Implications of this will be felt long after everyone in U.S. politics today is gone. …

• @grummz Mark Kern on x

  It's done. #BoycottBlizzard pic.twitter.com/2jMG1TNuZr

• @lachlan Lachlan Markay on x

  Gaming company @Blizzard_Ent, which banned a prominent player this week for speaking out in support of Hong Kong demonstrators, has this statue and accompanying plaque outside its Irvine, CA, campus pic.twitter.com/LxIqBA4H2L

• @vocommunism @vocommunism on x

  U.S. company @Blizzard_Ent punishes @blitzchungHS for pro-Hong Kong comments. His response: “I know what my action on stream means. It could cause me lot of trouble, even my personal safety in real life. But I think it's my duty to say something.” #HongKongProtests https://twitte…

• @vickerysec Chris Vickery on x

  Sen. Wyden puts some well-deserved shame on Blizzard. But for a real gut punch to Blizz, Wyden should have also pointed out that Grim Dawn is superior to Diablo 3 in every way. https://twitter.com/...

• @tomasforgac Tomas Forgac on x

  Blizzard sucks up to the regime in Hong Kong and China, bans a player and steals $10K of his prize money, after he publicly supported Hong Kong's protestors https://www.techmeme.com/... #egames #China #antiELAB

• @mahoutzukai Fuego Escalofriante De Basura on x

  A reminder to all my gamers out there that Blizzard is more concerned with its market in China than it is for the rights and safety of those protesting in Hong Kong. I know this isn't important for some of you, but it should be. https://twitter.com/...

• @sweetpotatoes Nicole Carpenter on x

  i spoke to @blitzchungHS yesterday and he said he expected “negative consequences,” but that he still wanted to “contribute to the protest” in hong kong https://www.polygon.com/...

• @vahn16 Nathan Grayson on x

  every time blizzard purports to make a game about a better world, battling against an unfair status quo, or empowering marginalized people, think about this. think about the company's real world actions when money is on the line https://kotaku.com/...

• @brucefenton Bruce Fenton on x

  Can you imagine if Blizzard withdrew a prize from someone because they criticized Trump or Hillary? https://twitter.com/...

• @tomgara Tom Gara on x

  “There's one rather glaring hole in this story of immediate outrage from Chinese fans over Morey's tweet: Twitter is banned in China.” https://stratechery.com/...

• @matthewstoller Matt Stoller on x

  @krystalball @esaagar Western business leaders by and large do not want to give up on freedom, but they felt they had no choice bc everyone *had* to be in China. Now that attitude among policymakers and business/financial leaders is changing. https://twitter.com/...

• @martinbelam Martin Belam on x

  Prominent gamer has been banned from competing by US company Blizzard for calling for the liberation of Hong Kong after a live-stream https://www.invenglobal.com/ ...

• @timrizzo Tim Rizzo on x

  #boycottblizzard is now trending in the US as a result of this decision. https://twitter.com/...

• @peppercoyote @peppercoyote on x

  So “Cancel Culture” is mostly overblown and kinda fake. Do anything that against capital, however and an American company concerned with the Chinese market will absolutely cancel you. And not the “Couldn't host the oscars but is still in every movie” kind of cancelled. https://tw…

• @saladinahmed Saladin Ahmed on x

  we spend a lot of time talking about our cyberpunk dystopia but remember that young people are also coming up with venues for resistance that could never have occurred to science fiction authors 30+ years ago https://twitter.com/...

• @invenglobal @invenglobal on x

  We have a statement from @blitzchungHS “... I put so much effort in that social movement in the past few months, that I sometimes couldn't focus on preparing my Grandmaster match...” https://www.invenglobal.com/ ...

• @simonparkin Simon Parkin on x

  Yesterday a Hearthstone tournament winner said ‘liberate Hong Kong’ during his post-match interview. Now the game's publisher Blizzard, part-owned by the Chinese conglomerate Tencent, has rescinded the player's winnings and issued him a year-long ban... https://twitter.com/...

• @timbray Tim Bray on x

  What the actual... srsly Blizzard? https://www.techmeme.com/...

• @vikkikitty VikkiCat on x

  Actually insane. https://twitter.com/...

• @isaacstonefish Isaac Stone Fish on x

  This should get more attention: the American video game company Blizzard just banned a gamer and took away his prize money after he supported Hong Kong. https://www.bloomberg.com/...

• @mollymckew Molly McKew on x

  Why are us “hardliners” always saying you can't take the money from Russian, Chinese investors? Because it all comes with state strings. In this case, cow-towing to the oppression of a pro-democracy movement. This is despicable. https://twitter.com/...

• @deezus_walks Dillon but on x

  Damn bro just when I thought Blizzard was the most unlikable company, they cave in and lick the boot of China to save face so the Chinese don't get angry and stop buying their product. Not sure I've seen a game dev company pick a side in politics this hard before. https://twitter…

• @lizjosullivan @lizjosullivan on x

  My BFF has been a Blizzard super user for 11+ years. He's cancelling his account today. Liberate Hong Kong. https://twitter.com/...

• @mollymckew Molly McKew on x

  US companies with Chinese investment are debasing themselves condemning Hong King protests. Any company that caves to these anti-democratic requests — gamers, NBA, don't care who — should be boycotted by Americans who cares about our history and freedom. https://www.bloomberg.com…