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Blizzard Chose Tyranny (The Jimquisition)
🕑 Added 2019-10-14 17:09:21 +0000 UTCActivision Blizzard has been mired in controversy since it punished professional Hearthstone player Blitzchung for his vocal support of Hong Kong. Seen as a move made to placate China, the decision to suspend and withhold money from Blitzchung was torn apart by critics.
As Hong Kong protesters fight for their continued autonomy from China, and as corporations across America cuddle up to an authoritarian Beijing government for money, Blizzard claims its actions had nothing to do with its own political relationships.
This is wrong. Even if Blizzard believes its decision was purely apolitical, it wasn't. Regardless of reason, the message is clear and the context is obvious. Blizzard chose tyranny, plain and simple.
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Are we going to have to park the fleet at China to stop US companies from taking away our rights? China knows they can really fuck our businesses. Should be forced to take down the great firewall too.
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Trevor Bond
Sadly 'China has money = China is always right' is how this goes. Tibet, Hong Kong, next they'll start buying their way into an invasion of europe and making sure people say it's racist to complain about all the killing.
Björn Hansson
The title of this one is particularly well chosen. Jim knows his way with words. 👍
Chris Skuller
More and more the true face of unfettered capitalism reveals itself. This is why we always need to retain the right to reign in companies like this before they hurt and exploit people.
Ben L.
I like Tyranny, it's a pretty cool game. Fuck China, though.
Daniel M
Because in CAAApitalism, it's not enough to be thriving, you have to be more thriving year after year and more thriving than everyone else. A "thriving" company that can become even more thriving by laying off people can and will do so.
Kraken
It strikes me that a genuine "thriving company" is one that can say with certainty that in three years it will have a similar or larger roster of employees with high morale, enough money in reserve that one failed project won't sent the whole enterprise into a nosedive, and a sense of where it intends to go in the future that isn't dependent on trying to spin a battleship around like a sports car in pursuit of some trend that will have evaporated by the time they get there. ...In that regard, are there ANY "thriving companies" in the video games sphere? Maybe a scattering among the indies who have had a particularly good run, at best?
JarvisSensei
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Juicy. Been excitedly waiting for this one! :D
