• krathalan
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    They are referring to the Blitzchung incident, when China illegally took full control over Hong Kong before their agreement to let it be autonomous expired. During the mass protests a Hong Kong esports player voiced support for the protests on a Blizzard livestream for an event and was banned from the tournament and was forced to forfeit prize money he already won: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitzchung_controversy

    Edit: also, disapproval of the CCP =/= dislike of/racism towards Chinese people

    • eris@sh.itjust.works
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      So there’s a problem with the American company freely associating with who they want to? That’s anti-free market!

      • Version@feddit.de
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        That‘s not „anti-free market“ at all. People can buy from whoever they want and if they think that this is bad, they can freely choose to not buy anything from Blizzard.

      • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.ee
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        Free markets include the freedom not to buy a product for any reason or for no reason. What you’re talking about is establishing a class of people who are free to act according to their conscience, and another class of people who are not.