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It's amazing how many people completely misunderstand blizzards decision. Blizzards decision is completely in line with other international sporting events, foo

by Guthur 7y ago

It's amazing how many people completely misunderstand blizzards decision. Blizzards decision is completely in line with other international sporting events, football body FIFA also disallow political statements and I'm sure the Olympics are the same. If you allow this for Hong Kong can someone else call out support for other political activities even ones you don't agree with.

sodosopa 7y ago
> If you allow this for Hong Kong can someone else call out support for other political activities even ones you don't agree with. That’s the beauty of freedom of speech but also shows rightfully that it is not freedom from speech.
idlewords 7y ago
Blizzard could have issued the player a warning about its policy and no one would have batted an eye. Instead it stripped him of prize money, barred him from competition, and fired the two people interviewing him.
goatinaboat 7y ago
Blizzards decision is completely in line with other international sporting events Except that Blizzard does make political statements when it thinks it will be profitable.
towelrod 7y ago
FIFA hasn't done anything like this, have they? Only thing I can remember recently is when Shaqiri and Xhaka had political celebrations after a World Cup game, and they both escaped punishment: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jun/25/swiss-xhaka-shaqiri-escape-ban-celebration-serbia https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jun/25/swiss-xhaka... Even then, the potential punishment was a 2-match ban. They wouldn't have stripped Switzerland of the victory,banned them for a year, and taken away all the money they earned throughout the entire season (all things that Blizzard did)
alasdair_ 7y ago
>Blizzards decision is completely in line with other international sporting events, football body FIFA also disallow political statements and I'm sure the Olympics are the same. Blizzard has had plenty of people make political statements about, say, LGBT issues and has NEVER invoked this "rule" before. They even had a US-based team do exactly the same thing and failed to issue any ban until the hypocrisy was repeatedly pointed out to them. It is the selective enforcement that is the issue, as well as the heavy-handed punishment.
Grue3 7y ago
Olympics is perhaps not the best example considering how their treatment of black power salute incident still remains a black mark on their reputation. >If you allow this for Hong Kong can someone else call out support for other political activities even ones you don't agree with. And so what? I'm perfectly able to distinguish somebody's opinion from the official position of Blizzard and wouldn't hold that opinion against them.

by Guthur 7y ago

sodosopa 7y ago

> If you allow this for Hong Kong can someone else call out support for other political activities even ones you don't agree with. That’s the beauty of freedom of speech but also shows rightfully that it is not freedom from speech.

idlewords 7y ago

Blizzard could have issued the player a warning about its policy and no one would have batted an eye. Instead it stripped him of prize money, barred him from competition, and fired the two people interviewing him.

goatinaboat 7y ago

Blizzards decision is completely in line with other international sporting events Except that Blizzard does make political statements when it thinks it will be profitable.

towelrod 7y ago

FIFA hasn't done anything like this, have they? Only thing I can remember recently is when Shaqiri and Xhaka had political celebrations after a World Cup game, and they both escaped punishment: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jun/25/swiss-xhaka-shaqiri-escape-ban-celebration-serbia https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jun/25/swiss-xhaka... Even then, the potential punishment was a 2-match ban. They wouldn't have stripped Switzerland of the victory,banned them for a year, and taken away all the money they earned throughout the entire season (all things that Blizzard did)

alasdair_ 7y ago

>Blizzards decision is completely in line with other international sporting events, football body FIFA also disallow political statements and I'm sure the Olympics are the same. Blizzard has had plenty of people make political statements about, say, LGBT issues and has NEVER invoked this "rule" before. They even had a US-based team do exactly the same thing and failed to issue any ban until the hypocrisy was repeatedly pointed out to them. It is the selective enforcement that is the issue, as well as the heavy-handed punishment.

Grue3 7y ago

Olympics is perhaps not the best example considering how their treatment of black power salute incident still remains a black mark on their reputation. >If you allow this for Hong Kong can someone else call out support for other political activities even ones you don't agree with. And so what? I'm perfectly able to distinguish somebody's opinion from the official position of Blizzard and wouldn't hold that opinion against them.