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You know, I vaguely remember HK protestors being glad that people were making the effort to make Blizzard accountable for punishing people for speaking out in s
by jplayer01 7y ago
You know, I vaguely remember HK protestors being glad that people were making the effort to make Blizzard accountable for punishing people for speaking out in support of HK. Is it suddenly a bad thing because the people trying to protest at a Blizzard event aren't being beaten?
- diggan 7y agoNo, absolutely not! I'm sorry if I gave that impression. I love that people are standing up for what they believe in. I just disagreed with the notion that whatever Blizzard will do, can be classified as "clamping down hard", but it might just be that I have a different experience of what that means. And I might be wrong, maybe Blizzard will do drastic, irrational actions like involve riot police or something. Who knows.
- jplayer01 7y agoIt's important to see an idiom like that contextually. Of course there's going to be a difference if you're in Spain on the streets facing off the police or if you're going to a gaming event hosted by a games developer. Clamping down will take on different meanings depending on who is involved or where it's taking place, but I don't think it's wrong to use 'clamping down' in this context.