KLAMarine said:
Excellent question. |
You need to have a look at the leverage you have before putting pressure in any given topic. Western gamers have little to no leverage within the chinese government. Western gamers have a ton of leverage with Activision-Blizzard.
So it's a matter of picking your battles wisely. And even if most of us agree with the sentiment behind the HK protests (I would hope), this is a Chinese matter, and it's up to the people in that country to come to a resolution of that dispute. What we shouldn't do is bend our values (i.e. freedom of speech) to not offend the brutal regime currently in charge of China.
The amoral position would be for Blizzard to ignore the comments made in support of the HK protest movement and carry on living, probably that would have been good enough for all, including the Chinese government.
Unfortunately they took the immoral position and rain down hellfire, over both the guy speaking on behalf of the protesters and the shout casters which had absolutely nothing to do with it. It was abhorrent what they did and they are in a shitstorm of their own making.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, it's fine if Blizzard as a company takes their money, just don't suck the CCP's dick as well.
