Lexicus
Deity
It shouldn't surprise anyone that all the money to be made from the Chinese broadcast television market is more important to the NBA than the freedom of any person anywhere in the entire world.
General News Regarding China & Hong Kong
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It shouldn't surprise anyone that all the money to be made from the Chinese broadcast television market is more important to the NBA than the freedom of any person anywhere in the entire world.
Ferocitus
Deity
Gold Visa applications are on the increase by those wanting to escape Socialism's tentacles.
Apparently, the most popular country to flee to is... Portugal.
Slam dunk!
Apparently, the most popular country to flee to is... Portugal.
Slam dunk!
Moriarte
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We, as in you and Trump? Trump is only doing what he does for himself and his family. Don’t be so hopelessly naive in ateempting to place yourself in his equations. He is pursuing only short-term goals, the ones most likely to win him popularity among core base. Building a wall, keeping stock market under relative control, enriching those who propelled him in various ways. No sane man, least of all Trump, will “oppose China at every conceivable oppportunity”, simply because he has business interests, state interests to attend to. Not blind beliefs of superiority of one political-economical system over another.
Huawei has to be crushed. Intellectual property laws have to be force-written into PRC legislation. More freedom for foreign investors to exploit China. Less freedom for China selling stuff around the world. Things like that. No one up there cares about a bunch of deranged radical extremists. They’re going to be used up and thrown away, as usual.
hobbsyoyo
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Blizzard just banned a professional Hearthstone player who spoke out about Hong Kong in a post-game interview stream.
I wonder how many companies are going this route after it was revealed that our President won't speak out on the issue to help with trade negotiations? i.e. he's giving them cover they wouldn't ordinarily have
Edit: It's worse than just banning him. They removed him from a the grandmasters (whatever that is), won't not receive a prize he should have won and is banned for a year. Oh and they fired two casters involved in the interview.
Ferocitus
Deity
At least they have a business-friendly electoral system in Hong Kong that was set up by the old freedom-loving colonial masters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_constituency_(Hong_Kong)
Defending his own unopposed election to Legislative Council in 2012, Chan said
that people ought not to underestimate functional consistencies. He suggested he
was elected because chief executives of 140 insurance companies – the corporate
votes making up the majority of his constituency – knew exactly who does things
properly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_constituency_(Hong_Kong)
Defending his own unopposed election to Legislative Council in 2012, Chan said
that people ought not to underestimate functional consistencies. He suggested he
was elected because chief executives of 140 insurance companies – the corporate
votes making up the majority of his constituency – knew exactly who does things
properly.
GoodEnoughForMe
n.m.s.s.
The cool thing is companies like Blizzard and the NBA make waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more money from the west/the US than China still, and stand to lose a lot more if they angered lots of people in the west, but they know the only people who are mad about this kind of thing are a very small part of the market and so they can tiptoe around the issue to placate China, which presents a unified front, and realize they're only going to lose a few of the most tuned in fans in the US and stuff.
Lexicus
Deity
Tbh it's an argument for, not merely a trade war with China, but hermetically sealing off the Chinese economy from the rest of the world.
Whoa, good catch.
It looks like Blizzard is firmly in bed with the communists while the NBA is still struggling to do the right thing.
Time to uninstall all my blizzard games and delete my blizzard account.
Socrates99
Bottoms up!
That's pretty much how the USSR was taken down. China has had a better deal where horsehockey capitalists have been cool with using "cheap commie" labor at the expense of their own countrymen. Now those same horsehockyheels (ie Donald Trump) pretend to care about it while still using Chinese labor. Even the tariffs have been exploited since domestic steel and aluminum have gone up in price probably purely to benefit those at the top.
It is harder to delete my Battle.net account than I thought.
https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/26516
https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/26516
Lexicus
Deity
It is harder to delete my Battle.net account than I thought.
I applaud this action and would suggest sending an email or something to make sure they know exactly why you did this.
oh my god let the Karen memes rain down upon me!
Socrates99
Bottoms up!
I just abandoned mine. Hackers took it over. WoW focused too much on end game raids, D3 sucked, Hearthstone is another PtW ccg. I didn't event try SC3.It is harder to delete my Battle.net account than I thought.
Used to love that company. fudge em.
Take Tim, he will tank the damage while you sneak in.
Ferocitus
Deity
And Erdogan makes 3.
Account cancelled!
No box to fill in why I did it, so I guess they don't care.
No way to e-mail blizzard either.
Lot of years on those games.
Spoiler :
Automated E-mail called it a "data protection request", so I guess the account never gets deleted, but all the info it contains is erased.
It is literally impossible for their number of battle.net accounts to go down.
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Lexicus
Deity
Socrates99
Bottoms up!
lol good luck with that.
GoodEnoughForMe
n.m.s.s.
Yeah, I mean the whole China becoming capitalist = democracy has clearly backfired, and the 2010s are going to go down as China's most authoritarian in decades, what with now over 1.5 million Uighur Muslims gradually being moved from internment camps to prisons. This should also be a time to really examine what free speech means, particularly on some areas of the left, where the discourse for years has been begging companies to enforce tighter speech codes on their products; because 99.9% of the time it ends in this, not the end of white supremacy. Instead of yelling at Zuck or Twitter bro dude to give a crap, maybe we should be trying to prevent companies from having such power and those who control speech being essentially un-democratic, un-elected CEOs in absurdly vertical hierarchies, but that will never happen, and instead most people will beg for billionaires to save them instead of questioning the system that lead us here in the first place. Most excellent.
