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Does Blizzard's muzzling/suspension of a Hearthstone tournament player count? Sure, the player isn't an employee, but essentially earns money by playing. http
by r00fus 7y ago
Does Blizzard's muzzling/suspension of a Hearthstone tournament player count? Sure, the player isn't an employee, but essentially earns money by playing.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21190265 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21190265
- yifanl 7y agoI think a caster was canned as well, which I'd definitely qualify as an employee.
- imgabe 7y agoNot really. Blizzard cites a specific rule that all the tournament players agree to that allows them to do that. Most employees don't have any such agreement with their employer. Even so, with at-will employment, employees have always been subject to being fired for saying something controversial on social media, so this is nothing new.
- unionpivo 7y agoI mean there will always be legal excuse. Corporations hr departments have firing down to a fine art.
- SamReidHughes 7y agoReally, that's different. It's perfectly reasonable to prohibit your tournament streams from being used as a medium for activism.