> It still advocates censorship and doesn't get at the root of the problem that the censorship was occurring at the behest and pressure of a foreign government

> It still advocates censorship and doesn't get at the root of the problem that the censorship was occurring at the behest and pressure of a foreign government. Is that actually the root of the problem? I keep reading this claim about how China supposedly strongarmed Blizzard into doing it but what evidence do we actually have for that? Because it's not like this is unprecedented: Blizzard has been banning plenty of pro-players over voicing their particular political opinions, even when players did it on their personal streams. The reality is very likely that Blizzard simply does not want any political speech at all, especially not on their major events. As such Blizzchung could probably also have called out Barcelona or Palestine and the result would very likely have been the same. But because this is China, there's a whole lot of people heavily, and professionally, invested in spinning the situation as much as possible, very comparable to that whole Ubisoft situation with R6:Siege "censorship".