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The Blizzard Blitzchung Incident |OT| Overwatched By China
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Almost like this Blizzard brought back the Cold War
I'll see myself out
He's my senator, so I'll give him credit for this, but I have to add that he sucks up to the Israeli government the same way Blizzard does to China (really my only complaint about him), so it's not like he's completely morally consistent here.
Another huge factor that slipped my mind is that you can't play games for more than 2 hours in one session. That makes mobile games much more desirable.
That post is very easy to misread lol, it looks like it's implying that the right and left were in agreement/in it together with gamergate but they mean they've only seen division since that point, until now, I think.
I believe what he or she is saying is that the left and right have not agreed on anything from GamerGate onwards but they agree on this.
I want to delete my account but I can't. The Blizzard FB page is getting slammed and they are making no attempt to clean it up.
Exactly, everyone everywhere is calling Blizzard out.
Well, Brad Wardell is oddly quiet on this one atm.
User Banned (Permanent): Misrepresenting and mischaracterizing the events and ideology surrounding the Hong Kong protests; account in junior phase
There's plenty of critical takes on the Hong Kong protests from the left. It's viewed as something akin to the Tea Party and alt-right movements within the United States; a nativist reaction against "outsiders" (aka Chinese tourism and immigration), complete with mythologizing British colonialism as a "former Golden Age". And much like Gamergate itself, it was sparked by an angry boyfriend hurting a woman and expecting to get away without consequences... though in this case he murdered his girlfriend and shoved her body into a suitcase.
The comparison to being caused by an angry male is very disingenuous. It was caused by the law introduced by the government as a response to that event, along with many years of latent sensitivity. Governments use truly terrible things as covered justification for bad laws all the time.
Y'all try deleting your accounts?
Blizzard actively using nefarious activation methods to prevent deletion of accounts.
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So now Blizzard have disabled ALL FOUR authentication methods to actively stop people from deleting their accounts. This is beyond disgusting. Spread awareness of this. #BoycottBlizzard"
People should be making a bigger stink about this.
Blizzard actively using nefarious activation methods to prevent deletion of accounts.
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So now Blizzard have disabled ALL FOUR authentication methods to actively stop people from deleting their accounts. This is beyond disgusting. Spread awareness of this. #BoycottBlizzard"
People should be making a bigger stink about this.
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This has been making the rounds but it looks more like a trigger that occurs in high traffic periods, rather than Blizzard disabling it.
theres a thread about it, and its more of a "system cant handle all these requests" thing than a nefarious thing. That person in the tweet herself managed to do it later. Come on Bomb, get with the times :p
These are not "critical takes from the left", they're total propaganda from the types of people who like to shill for Assad's Syrian government.
Wasn't J Allen Brack supposed to have something to say today?
Also, long time Blizzard fanboy kripp came out with a statement:
Personally I wish it was a stronger message by for sure he's now going to be blackballed by Blizzard (he got a lot of preferential treatment from them)
Also, long time Blizzard fanboy kripp came out with a statement:
Personally I wish it was a stronger message by for sure he's now going to be blackballed by Blizzard (he got a lot of preferential treatment from them)
there was some rumblings he would adress the Blizz staff at Irvine, nothing about a external statement. I'm honestly not sure what they CAN say at this point. They either double down, or cut ties with china sooooooooo...
Thank you for compiling all the current news OP.
Oh geez that's unfortunate for SGT lol.
Oh geez that's unfortunate for SGT lol.
Ah yes, unlike our stalwart and trustworthy allies *checks notes* Gamergator Mark Kern and Tea Party Senator Mark Rubio. Mark Rubio would never shill for awful warmongers!
Liberal gamers are allying with Republicans and pretending it's about Ethics in Extradition Treaties. They should pay attention to who they're uncritically supporting. That doesn't mean Blizzard is in the right here (they're not!) but the Hong Kong protests are more Freeze Peach than free speech.
Here's a fucking take. Fuck off. Gamergate and the alt right aren't fighting against authoritarian rule you fucking moron. Eat shit.
Hmm. Hong Kong vs the authoritarian, ethnic cleansing, censorship happy Chinese government and gamers angry at that devs aren't only catering to them. Sure it's the same thing.
aye, I was just saying the rumour was it was a internal thing, not a public statement.
Companies need to rise up and stop the formation of the patriots.
If businesses around the world are desperate to censor themselves and others in order to appease China then it effectively has global control over what information it shares and this is real life, there is no Big Boss to save us.
If businesses around the world are desperate to censor themselves and others in order to appease China then it effectively has global control over what information it shares and this is real life, there is no Big Boss to save us.
I can't tell if you're just dishonestly omitting that Nancy Pelosi was the one standing with Joshua Wong mere weeks ago to advocate for the boldest American political action up to that point, the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, or if you genuinely didn't know.
Glad to see others here call out the intellectual dishonesty and lack of proportion on display.
As the Blizzard controversy settles in, we can expect more "but the GGers are on your side" cherry-picking from China apologists. This community is vulnerable to it, and we mustn't be fooled. If you have any real convictions about this or any other political issue, it doesn't matter who happens to be your allies and it doesn't matter what they think. Sharing a cause is not an endorsement of all their views. I caution others not to be distracted and misled.
Gonna post this here again since EU people are starting their day.
If you want to waste Blizzards money, check this reddit link
https://www.reddit.com/r/Blizzard/comments/df9i4e/upset_about_the_blitxchung_decision_heres_what/
If you want to waste Blizzards money, check this reddit link
https://www.reddit.com/r/Blizzard/comments/df9i4e/upset_about_the_blitxchung_decision_heres_what/
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