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| Topic | Blizzard bans and withholds prize money from hearthstone player for HK support |
| metroid composite 10/08/19 8:42:42 AM #48: | TomNook posted... Using a brand's platform to say something that will upset a lot of people is a bit different than a cooking blog. A better comparison I suppose would be using a string of foul language (depending on the brand's image), racial slurs, stripping naked live, making threats against someone, etc. I fully expect that yes, stripping naked live or using racial slurs would get the same response from Blizzard. But when you say "upset a lot of people"--we're talking about upsetting a government here. It's not really the same thing. It would be like me saying "Trudeau shouldn't have bought a pipeline". I doubt most Canadian citizens would get angry about that, but the government might. --- Cats land on their feet. Toast lands peanut butter side down. A cat with toast strapped to its back will hover above the ground in a state of quantum indecision ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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