BlizzCon 2019 Protest “Full-Steam Ahead,” Say Organizers

Re:BlizzCon 2019 Protest “Full-Steam Ahead,” Say Organizers by jdoliner on Monday October 21, 2019 @02:07PM (#21315338)

> "We encourage players and community members to express themselves. However, our tournament coverage is a platform for Blizzard e-sports content only. Any future use of the platform to express personal political opinions on sensitive subject matter without Blizzard's express conscent will be met with punative action."

> Follow that up with a description of what that punative action would look like.

Players already sign contracts stipulating that there will be punitive action for making political statements during tournament streams. I still agree with your broader point that they handled it badly, but I don't think they could have let him off with a warning and had any credibility left.

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Re:BlizzCon 2019 Protest “Full-Steam Ahead,” Say Organizers by dmix on Monday October 21, 2019 @02:29PM (#21315568)

> but I don't think they could have let him off with a warning and had any credibility left.

Credibility in terms of having a punitive response which demonstrates their authority or among players who would be outraged over Blizzard not being cool with political speech mixing with pro championship broadcasts?

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Re:BlizzCon 2019 Protest “Full-Steam Ahead,” Say Organizers by CivBase on Monday October 21, 2019 @04:21PM (#21316854)

Yes, but those contracts are vaguely worded catchalls and do not provide details on what that punitive action looks like. I don't consider that to be sufficient to justify their reaction.

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