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Re:Fallout from Blizzard Hong Kong Incident by moksly on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @12:43PM (#21204945)
I don’t know about SNL, but the thing that pisses me off about Blizzard is that they have been parading around as a company that supports human rights. They recently held a pro LGBT+ event, they’ve held numerous humanitarian aid campaigns and they even have a statue outside their headquarters that features one of their core values “Every voice matters”.

You simply can’t do all that, and then go against democracy and basic human rights like this, and then expect people to not call you out for your bullshit.

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Re:Fallout from Blizzard Hong Kong Incident by hguant on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @01:33PM (#21205581)
>They recently held a pro LGBT+ event...

That was mysteriously absent from their Chinese servers.

Activision/Blizzard being hypocrites about their stance on human rights has been around for a while - here's a _long_ forum thread from last year about "Blizzard selling out LGBTQ+ to Chinese money".

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/blizz-to-censor-wome...

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Re:Fallout from Blizzard Hong Kong Incident by rospaya on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @01:33PM (#21205595)
Not to denigrate supporting any kind of human rights, but promoting LGBT and humanitarian causes in almost any western country won't lose them a single customer. Today, that's the easy way out. 20-30 years ago it would be gutsy.
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Re:Fallout from Blizzard Hong Kong Incident by Fnoord on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @03:32PM (#21207019)
It can still cost them customers, e.g. hardcore Christians. Today, it is still brave, just less than 20-30 years ago.

Throughout the entire existence of WoW they've actively prohibited LGBT community to express themselves in WoW. While they did nothing about virtual RP sex on RP servers.

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