This whole situation is about the discussion over whether a game company’s official streams should be forced to host political speech regardless of the actual stance of said corporation, and whether preventing political speech is expressing a stance. Blitzchung’s actions were explicitly putting his politics in the…

They took the time to investigate and reduced the suspensions, enough so that Blitzchung is more than satisfied himself and is happily planning out the rest of his Hearthstone career.

Apparently not, since assholes like yourself won’t be happy unless your politics are shoved into everyones’ faces when they try to decompress at all times.

Unless their actions adhere to your specific politics, instead of being apolitical you don’t care what they’ll do. Their actions were more than enough for Blitzchung, he’s already preparing for the rest of his Hearthstone career, once the short ban drops.

Why, because I don’t wave around my charitable contributions and efforts to support people, and because I, like many people, need downtime to actually be able to continue those efforts? Talking in comments does jack shit. Put up or shut up.

Because those of us who are actually supporting the cause should froth at the mouth all the time instead of taking time to relax afterwards. When you show your donation receipts or evidence of doing something other than shouting in a comments section, I’ll give a shit about your supposed political stance. I back my…

Or you could redirect your energies towards actually helping those protests, putting your money where your mouth is and risking something, instead of defacing them and making people who would support you too tired of having politics shoved in their face when they need to recharge to support you.

Which, gee, takes time. Unless the actions you want are expressly political, which isn’t going to happen. Blizzard isn’t going to storm Hong Kong with a secret corporate military, and anything else would be a sneeze in the wind. It’s how they act regarding speech going forward that matters.

Yeah, we get it, companies should be punished if they don’t 100% fall in line with your personal politics, and everything should have politics injected into it, including and especially the pasttimes people turn to when they are tired of the shitty world and need to recharge. Nobody gets to relax, ever, because of…

Pretty much word for word what he said.

Yeah, eggs can be ridiculously inexpensive. If you go for the smaller eggs around these parts, you can pay less than a dollar for a dozen.

MINE IS THE DRILL THAT SHALL PIERCE THE HEAVENS!

Given the context, you’d get bonus points for finding one of the old blue-and-white illustrations.

It’s curious how you wish a corporation would express your politics for you. I thought the idea was to get business out of politics?

There is no “correct” response, at least not according to the people protesting. Some say even more lenient punishment, some say no punishment at all, some say to back the guy up, as if it wouldn’t immediately kill the Blizzard PR team when Blizzard loses a chunk of its revenue while it’s supposed to be improving…

That’s Tencent’s reply, not Blizzard. Tencent runs operations inside China, and as a Chinese company, is pretty much required to put out statements like that or not survive.

The single most cogent statement I've seen on the issue, and pretty much my own interpretation. Taking it slow is not looking good either at the moment, however.

The delay certainly lends credence to the theory that PR and not the rules are ruling over there. BlizzCon had better open with an apology for how poorly everything has been handled or things will only be getting worse for them.

Then it’s possible that you may be clinically depressed, and you should definitely be seeking help for it. It’s out there, and there’s no shame in looking for it.

Blizzards actions have been in line with the rules they set down, given that the tournament in question was run by a separate regional division, the tweet was by a Chinese company, the other tournament was under different rules AND not on the official Blizzard stream, and they went out of their way to investigate and…