You do know that a regime can call itself communist but behave in a fascist manner?It's the other powerful authoritarian communist state that behaved in similarly oppressive ways.
Disgraceful, but I guess the dollar is more important than the individual.
The NBA didn't though, at least for now.Even the NBA and other corps are bowing the knee, I don't see this changing much for game pubs who are all about the bottom line.
Watching the press conference on NBA TV now, Silver went on record saying, "If [CCTV] not airing preseason games are consequences of those within the league expressing their values then those are the consequences."
He also went on record saying the league will protect the freedom of speech of NBA employees including those based in Hong Kong.
Tencent owns
Riot Games (100%)
Supercell (84.3%)
Epic Games (40%)
Activision Blizzard (5%)
Ubisoft (5%)
Paradox Interactive (5%)
That's like asking if America is capitalist, since capitalism is all about free markets and freedom of trade while the majority of complaints levied against it are the result of monopolies and corporatist lobbying.oh you actually think china is a communist country
were the nazis actually socialists too?
Also, nobody seems to have raised this in connection with this latest incident, but Blizzard's complicity with Chinese state interests and propaganda over the Hong Kong issue specifically has been out in the open for months.
Here is a slice of what was added to the profanity filter in WoW back in June. (NetEase operates WoW in China, but of course Blizzard had to be complicit with implementing this update on the development side.)
It really is incredible to see a modern company, in this day and age of rising social justice awareness, just outright support Nazi-China. I don't think even comparing what the Chinese gov't is doing, to what the Nazis did, is even hyperbole anymore. Camps, forced abortions, organ harvesting. It's so obscene and vile. Fuck Blizzard.
No doubt any Q&A portions are cancelled now.
To be fair it's still baffling that they would tear themselves away from MS, just to tie themselves to a trash publisher like Activision for a decade
Um, no. None of this makes any sense. Let's not shift the overton window hereI can "understand" the fucked up logic of removing the player, but firing the 2 casters for simply being in the proximity is unbelievable.
And most likely only possible because of a $100m investment from China...
And then tie themselves with the chinese company Netease.To be fair it's still baffling that they would tear themselves away from MS, just to tie themselves to a trash publisher like Activision for a decade
Um, no. None of this makes any sense. Let's not shift the overton window here