Esports gamer Chung Ng Wai, who goes by Blitzchung, wears a gas mask and goggles and ends an interview saying “Liberate Hong Kong: Revolution of our times.” Hearthstone tournament sponsor Blizzard Entertainment bans him for a year and strips him of $10,000 in 2019 winnings. Is this just a case of an American company enforcing its legal contract and protecting its reputation? Or did parent company Activision Blizzard cave to minor investor Tencent Holdings Ltd., a massive Chinese conglomerate? Will global corporations ever stand up to the communist Chinese government and allow free speech? Can China stand against a world of (virtual) warriors?
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11 replies on “Blizzard Bans Blitzchung: Can China Stand Against a World of (Virtual) Warriors?”
I posted this video in a Twitch streamer’s subreddit. Yes, I’ve started following streamers and gamers. That surprises me, too.
Every reply, to the person, mirrors Bill’s position.
Blizzard has the right to regulate speech on it’s platform, and we have the right to let them know how we feel by not doing business with them.
More and more I see Bill’s theory about conservative gamers to be a credible one.
thank God, i just listened to a youtube personality who first took this high road of being “angry” then said Blizzard was correct to punish him and he would too- so the “anger” was false.
to hear someone standing up and stating the truth is heartwarming- go Bill…
When will China start restricting content of the corporations they do business with?
This was right in the nuggets.
Bill’s point that if it was free then no value is attached is a sad, but accurate, commentary on most people’s reasoning processes. It also provides some insight into why we have a history of warfare.
Once again…. Please feel free to vote with your cash and attention when facing these issues !!!! just sayin’
Though primarily so, it’s not just Millennials and younger retreating to video games. I’ll watch docs, chat shows and tutorials on Youtube/Bitchute. But the other half of the time I’m playing video games. Well, I bounce between a couple-three 4X games. But I barely watch any “television” anymore. And I’m leading edge GenX. Mr. Green’s age.
China is nothing more that something to keep tucked away in grandma’s dish cabinet — a gaudy thing that needs to be looked at once in awhile to remind us why we don’t use it.
Blizzard blows chungs!
The matrix is striking back. How dare a mere user have an independent idea let alone express one. This will NOT be tolerated. His purpose is only to follow the one true faith and pay. Users who refuse will be excommunicated as were Protestants excommunicated from the One True Church hundreds of years ago. Soon an inquisition and the foul inhuman treatment of heretics so they can suffer extreme agony for as long as possible. It will be a return to the glory of medieval despair, poverty, death and destruction by the new and revised One True Church.
Again, those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it without end. Only the irrelevant details will be changed to protect the guilty. It is the same old same old one more time.
He who is free never submits. He who submits, was never free. Stay free!
As Jim Geraghty said, “Those who study history are doomed to have to explain it to those who don’t”