By explicit, do you mean “Any and all support for Hong Kong protestors is not allowed.”? Or do you mean something like “We can ban users for saying anything controversial, and what is controversial is determined at our sole discretion.”?

The protesters in Hong Kong are covering their faces to avoid facial ID and protect against gas.  Thus, masks have become a symbol of the protest movement.

indicating his support for the pro-Democracy protests in Hong Kong. (Protesters in Hong Kong wear masks to obscure their identity from government surveillance and stay safe from tear gas.)

I’ve always had respect for Wizards of the Coast, it’s nice they’re actually respecting the freedom of speech of their players as well.

Who fucking cares?

I am not sure why people keep asking elderly, acclaimed male directors what they think

“for not liking movies like Ant-Man.”

They may just say “It’s not for me”, and not “ it’s despicable", can you see the difference, one is normal response about difference of tastes, and other is "I'm self-affected snob who hates people for liking stuff I don't".

Oh my goodness, no. I get so much personal enjoyment out of character-tweaking (Behave) that I can spend at least an hour or more creating a new one every time there’s a new game, or when I go back to an old favourite.

If I don’t know exactly what something does during a game, it’s something I can find out. If…

I know we’ve disagreed on things before but... I agree with you fully on this.

Yeah. It frustrates me that people see staying silent as being neutral. Like as if keeping the status quo and preserving the current power structures in play wasn’t in itself picking a side. Chinese government would like nothing more than other the rest of the world to not talk about their bullshit. So staying silent…

That’s one way to state the painfully obvious, whilst bypassing the point of the statement.

You’re literally engaged in sophistry, and nothing will come of your conviction that you’ve issued a stinging rebuke.

Yup. And that side is aligned with a government with one of the worst human rights track records on the planet.

Three things here—for me, anyway (YMMV):

1.) This is a delayed punishment, and it seems like that delay was largely a function of Blizzard gauging the (almost entirely negative) reaction to their sanctioning of Blitzchung. When most of the complaints coming out about Blitzchung’s treatment included acknowledgment that…

+ Me. 

Meanwhile gamers are lapping up the fortnite news even though fortnite is way deeper in China’s pocket. Ever hear a fortnite streamer mention Hong Kong? Nope, and you never will. 

Already knew this was going to be here:

Human *clap* rights *clap* are *clap* not *clap* poltics

“Now, more than ever, we need to use our platforms to speak out against the human rights violations happening in China and around the world, and advocate for freedom of speech and basic human dignity.”