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Re:Blizzard bans player from Hearthstone following on-stream... by x220 on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @03:30AM (#21189665)
But nearly every large company in America engages in political discussion when they talk about diversity, feminism, and inclusion. I think that's a good thing, but it's clearly not the case that these companies shy away from making progressive statements.
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Re:Blizzard bans player from Hearthstone following on-stream... by mlang23 on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @03:37AM (#21189710)
All they are doing is saying things which a certain audience wants to hear. Nobody really cares about inclusion or diversity. They just claim to do so, because in this day and age, they will benefit from doing so.
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Re:Blizzard bans player from Hearthstone following on-stream... by bmarquez on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @03:41AM (#21189738)
It doesn't cost large companies any money to make feel-good progressive political statements on social media.

However when it conflicts with their pocketbook, they stay quiet or internally oppose them (example: Zuckerberg trashing Warren for antitrust and privacy issues).

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Re:Blizzard bans player from Hearthstone following on-stream... by chii on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @03:39AM (#21189721)
That player has forced blizzard to appear as though they endorsed the protesters.

Being protesters for freedom, they ironically did not respect another (unrelated) entity's freedom to choose.

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Re:Blizzard bans player from Hearthstone following on-stream... by x220 on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @03:46AM (#21189774)
The freedom to oppress is no freedom at all
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Re:Blizzard bans player from Hearthstone following on-stream... by dang on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @03:50AM (#21189798)
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments/flamebait to Hacker News?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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