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Re:Activision Blizzard pushes out dozens of employees over w... by gaganyaan on Monday January 17, 2022 @11:39PM (#29975186)
This is just appeasement. "Just don't make a fuss" is sticking your fingers in your ears as atrocities happen.
Re:Activision Blizzard pushes out dozens of employees over w... by kodemager on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @01:59AM (#29975997)
I agree, but how do you boycott China? Every piece of hardware that I own has parts in them that was manufactured in China and where I live there aren’t alternatives.

I too deleted my Blizzard account in the wake of the HK nonsense, but it’s not like I had bought anything from them since Diablo 3 released considering I refunded my Warcraft 3 remade, so it felt a little like virtue signalling that nobody probably noticed.

Especially because we subscribe to Disney+ (I have young children), and I still buy a lot of things that were likely made by near (or possibly) slave labour. I know it’s still better to avoid what you can, but I can’t help but feel a little hypocritical about it.

At least with Blizard it turned out to have been a very good call when their toxic culture was revealed.