The below summation does not reflect the opinions of all politicians, nor does it reflect all members of resetera's opinions. It's just my interpretation of hypocrisy:
Politicians - "Video Games are causing mass shootings, publishers need to be held accountable as they are profiting on Violent video games"
Resetera - "Thats ridiculous, the government has no right to tell publishers what to do. Freedom of speech, commerce, etc."
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Politicians - "Video Game Publishers have no right to run their business to ensure profitability and we are going to tell them how they should engage their business practices when we don't like what they do."
Resetera - "Damn right you tell them publishers how they should run their business and make money."
One is government censorship. The other is government officials shaming a company for taking an active stance against human rights without taking any active action outside of the statement.
Also: Blizzard says "oh we'd do that with any opinion that caused public upset". Sorry, but the literal only people who could be reasonably offended by what Blitzchung did are the Chinese government, and they didn't even make a statement about it.
Oh, and I guess white Maoists and tankies who can't tell the difference between democratic socialism, Maoist China and State-Capitalist China, but no non-Chinese company gives a shit about them. Regardless! Blizzard didn't actually act on any real statement where "all weren't welcome" or whatever, nor to any actual upset Blitzchung caused. They kowtowed to what they thought was an authoritarian government's desires. They actively chose a side with their action. This goes beyond defending their monetary interests.
And I'm sorry, but even outside of that, if Acti-Blizzard can't afford to not pass over the Chinese market if they're banned from it due to not taking an inexcusable action against their e-sports competitors, maybe they don't deserve to be in business.
