Activision Blizzard is not talking about its recent ban of Blitzchung, nor how it would react to future expressions of pro-Hong Kong support.
owns a huge share of his company, publicly saying that he would not have done what Blizzard did here in the interest of free speech. Someone asked him if say,streamer Tfue expressed pro-Hong Kong support in an interview, if any action would be taken against him, and Sweeney flat-out said no.
This all comes at a tremendously poor time for Blizzard given that BlizzCon is only three weeks away. It stands to reason that attendees could arrive with pro-Hong Kong signs and shirts, and that livestreams of the event will be spammed with pro-Hong Kong messages. And in that situation, I genuinely have no idea what Blizzard is going to do. If it bans those kinds of messages that becomes its own news story and feeds into the narrative that exists already.
Blizzard has exemplified the Streisand Effect here. It is exceedingly likely that no one would have even batted an eye over Blitzchung’s statement if Blizzard simply let him collect his winnings and keep playing.
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