You're asking me to defend me disagreeing with the original point - the burden of argument should really be on them, but anyway... Tiananmen square is an immed

You're asking me to defend me disagreeing with the original point - the burden of argument should really be on them, but anyway... Tiananmen square is an immediate and obvious pick. People who publicly referenced the events of Tiananmen square were not allowed to interact with China on a business level. If Hearthstone had existed back then and the streamer had mentioned Tiananmen square, Blizzard would (I think) have taken exactly the same approach as they did today. There's no co-opting of Western politicking here. > Besides, are we really talking about censorship in "the East"? Blizzard is based in California. Blizzard is heavily integrated with Tencent in China. The actions they took are to preserve that relationship. Ergo the censorship of China is what we're looking at here - without it this event would not have occurred.