That’s not what people are speaking out in favor of. If they were, they’d be talking about Hong Kong, not an entertainment company. They are talking about the right to use a corporation’s private property for civil disobedience without risk and the ability to violate a contract without repercussions.

No, because the pledge drive is expected. This is someone going on, say, Fresh Air for a live interview, and instead spending the entire time talking about how trans people aren’t being treated properly. It’s a worthy cause, but it’s not what we went to hear, or related to what’s going on.

Sure, civil disobedience, that’s fine. But the methods of this civil disobedience are empty, hollow, and not actually contributing to anything. Internet posts are not what Thoreau had in mind when he wrote about civil disobedience, because such acts derive their power from the risk involved. If you take time off to…

I’ve already contributed to the protests, with my wallet, even though I can’t actually afford it. Have you?

My position is:

China is disgusting and needs to be dealt with. You don’t need to parade around the list of offenses every time someone stops to take a break. If you can’t handle that, you’ll wind up being dismissed as an asshole, even by the people who agree with you. Like me.

The argument is literally about whether people can shove politics in the faces of others using another person’s private property to do so.

With what, Blizzard’s private army? Taking away a single game when China already has an immense entertainment industry? Idealism is great, but it needs to be grounded, kid.

My personal politics has me donating to the cause and not shoving them in other peoples’ faces at inappropriate times. Yours is to accuse people of believing in things they don’t because they disagree with your methods.

Yeah, maybe return to politics when you can act like an actual adult.

Your position is literally that people have a right to use private property to spread their politics regardless of the wishes of the owner of that property or the audience that is there. I support the shit out of Hong Kong, but I don’t support that.

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…