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Noticing this a lot more recently with the NBA controversy too.

Analemma_ 7y ago
The NBA at least seems to be walking back their initial condemnation of Morey's comments, China be damned: [0]. We should give them credit for that. Conversely, there's been radio silence from Blizzard so far. [0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/sports/adam-silver-nba-china-hong-kong.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/sports/adam-silver-nba-ch...
- f-securus 7y ago
  But they ejected fans that had HK posters?
  - sp332 7y ago
    Things are moving pretty fast. Silver came out on the side of free speech, as far as I can see, just a few hours before the fan was ejected for yelling "Free Hong Kong". It's possible that the Philadelphia officials thought they were following the league's lead even if the NBA's official stance had changed.
    - jessaustin 7y ago
      Someone else should probably try it. Then again, NBA tickets are expensive... maybe something to try in the fourth quarter?
  - Rebelgecko 7y ago
    It'll be interesting to see what happens at the next Laker home game. Someone raised like $40k on GoFundMe to hand out pro-HK shirts
  - 556343throwaway 7y ago
    Because those fans were causing a disruption, not because of their message.
intopieces 7y ago
What is so weird about the NBA controversy is that it stems from a tweet. Twitter is banned in China. So how could it have “hurt the Chinese people’s feelings”?
- upbeatlinux 7y ago
  The Chinese government isn't stupid. It knows people circumvent the GFoC. Damage control as usual. I think the US corollary is "all enemies foreign and domestic".
  - radicsge 7y ago
    Those people who can circumvent the GFoC, already knows that their leader is pulling down the whole country.
    - AFascistWorld 7y ago
      The west should quit pretending that the majority of Chinese hate the CCP.
    - notyourday 7y ago
      > Those people who can circumvent the GFoC, already knows that their leader is pulling down the whole country. CCP is what is industrializing the country. There's not a single person in the West who is not a recent immigrant that lived in a pre-industrial society. In this case Chinese population supports CCP because between supporting some rich special people in HK protesting something and not going back to working the fields with bare hands, HK protesters lose. West is ought to understand it.
      - intopieces 7y ago
        Absolutely. For further reading on this, I recommend “Age of Ambition” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Ambition https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Ambition
      - 7y ago

The NBA at least seems to be walking back their initial condemnation of Morey's comments, China be damned: [0]. We should give them credit for that. Conversely, there's been radio silence from Blizzard so far. [0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/sports/adam-silver-nba-china-hong-kong.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/sports/adam-silver-nba-ch...

f-securus 7y ago
But they ejected fans that had HK posters?
- sp332 7y ago
  Things are moving pretty fast. Silver came out on the side of free speech, as far as I can see, just a few hours before the fan was ejected for yelling "Free Hong Kong". It's possible that the Philadelphia officials thought they were following the league's lead even if the NBA's official stance had changed.
  - jessaustin 7y ago
    Someone else should probably try it. Then again, NBA tickets are expensive... maybe something to try in the fourth quarter?
- Rebelgecko 7y ago
  It'll be interesting to see what happens at the next Laker home game. Someone raised like $40k on GoFundMe to hand out pro-HK shirts
- 556343throwaway 7y ago
  Because those fans were causing a disruption, not because of their message.

intopieces 7y ago

What is so weird about the NBA controversy is that it stems from a tweet. Twitter is banned in China. So how could it have “hurt the Chinese people’s feelings”?

upbeatlinux 7y ago
The Chinese government isn't stupid. It knows people circumvent the GFoC. Damage control as usual. I think the US corollary is "all enemies foreign and domestic".
- radicsge 7y ago
  Those people who can circumvent the GFoC, already knows that their leader is pulling down the whole country.
  - AFascistWorld 7y ago
    The west should quit pretending that the majority of Chinese hate the CCP.
  - notyourday 7y ago
    > Those people who can circumvent the GFoC, already knows that their leader is pulling down the whole country. CCP is what is industrializing the country. There's not a single person in the West who is not a recent immigrant that lived in a pre-industrial society. In this case Chinese population supports CCP because between supporting some rich special people in HK protesting something and not going back to working the fields with bare hands, HK protesters lose. West is ought to understand it.
    - intopieces 7y ago
      Absolutely. For further reading on this, I recommend “Age of Ambition” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Ambition https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Ambition
    - 7y ago