Re:Fallout from Blizzard Hong Kong Incident
by helen___keller on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @12:49PM
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I agree that Blizzard is reasonable to want to limit political speech, including speech related to Hong Kong, on their event broadcast.
However I think the response was totally out of scale. They banned the player from competing for a year, rescinded winnings, deleted the VOD of the event, and fired both casters who were interviewing him. Would that have happened if a player on stream said something else political and inflammatory? No way.
However I think the response was totally out of scale. They banned the player from competing for a year, rescinded winnings, deleted the VOD of the event, and fired both casters who were interviewing him. Would that have happened if a player on stream said something else political and inflammatory? No way.
Example: https://www.polygon.com/2018/1/20/16913072/overwatch-league-... $2000 fine and a 4 day ban
An $x000 fine and y game suspension is a punishment in line with this offense in literally every professional sports league.