• krathalan@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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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

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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!

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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.

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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.

    • True Blue@lemmy.comfysnug.space
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      There’s no need to shoehorn in your dislike of Chinese people into this video gaming story.

      Strawman flame-bait everyone. Please ignore.

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        Yes. Please ignore when things disagree with major Western narratives everyone. Wouldn’t want the worldview that was fed to you challenged.

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      Account was only made two hours ago and is immediately saying provocative things… 🤔 Totally not a troll.