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Blizzard Sponsor Mitsubishi Bailed After ‘Free Hong Kong’ Gamer Ban
- Thread starter chadskin
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Great, more companies should follow suit.
Free Hong Kong. Free XINJIANG.
This is also why social media protest puts some pressure and contributes to the discussion.
Free Hong Kong. Free XINJIANG.
This is also why social media protest puts some pressure and contributes to the discussion.
Good.
Glad this is already having some real financial impact on Blizzard, hopefully it gets worse over time.
Glad this is already having some real financial impact on Blizzard, hopefully it gets worse over time.
Going to be awkward when the tone of Blizzcon drastically changes after they get on stage and announce Diablo 4. Because as soon as that happens, most are going to move on from the Hong Kong stuff (as far as blizzard is concerned).
The implication that these idiots actually think they know how protest or change works is the worst part.
"FREE HONG KONG!"
"He's Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2. Shut up."
"Yay! We love you Blizzard!"
We'll see. I know a lot of talented people are working on those games and they're probably just as upset with Blizzard as many of the rest of us.
This is a good example of the kind of pressure point that is helpful when it comes to applying a public backlash to e-sports, and exactly the sort of action I was hoping for. Spectators have complained to sponsors over far less.
Unlikely, given that Jackie Chan has rather notoriously spoken up against the protests and is not well liked by HK democrats. It's about as relevant as Mitsubishi's history of arms manufacturing for Imperial Japan.
Also, this specific sponsor is Mitsubishi's Taiwan branch.
Jackie Chan has been shilling for the Chinese government for a long ass time. He is pro-beijing and said a lot of dumb things in the past and present like "Hong Kong has too much freedom" and "there's no air pollution in Beijing".
This.
Hitting 'em in the sponsors is one of the most effective methods of change, sad as it is. May it start a cascade of dominos.
Free Hong Kong.
I love Jackie Movies but yeah the dude it really shit when it comes to social (and human rights) issues.
Thats sad to hear though I wont be surprised if he is pressed by goverment. There was series of social media messages from Chinese members of Kpop groups who send it day apart from each other and wording sure was corporate, even from Hong Kong members.
Star power means very little when goverment can end you any time and thats not only career I'm talking about.
Pretty Much all Mainland Actors are Pro-China (by themselves or get force)
They can't stay silent.
Good for Mitsubishi. Side note, sucks that they no longer make any cool cars. At least in the U.S.