Wow, you really had a lot on your chest in this matter thanks for the nice readI kind of get that but it still feels wrong even if it is in a round about way to punish people for just being alive in the wrong place. I know business gonna business but pullouts, sanctions etc never really do anything to those who need to be punished, if these and sanctions did work we'd have got rid of Putin, PRC, Kim dynasty years ago. But in the end all it ever does is hurt the people who don't have a say and most of the time backfires. I know you can't compare playing games with human rights. Though at the same time it still feels like pulling out of china would punish people who have no say.
If you gave me a button that said "Hong Kong free." with "High PRC members will all be shown on daytime tv being dragged through the streets." I'd press the button and grab the popcorn, press it again more times for good measure (I mean I would like the entire communist party destroyed. But China has a history of civil wars if change happens far too quickly). I know people that left HK around the time of the handover and work with them along with donating to international charities so people of HK are as safe as possible.
I'm more mad at Google and Apple than I am at blizzard over China and HK. Blizzard basically banned a player and didn't reign in Netease when it made the Weibo statement (which no one can be 100% sure if even Netease wrote that or Weibo edited the fuck out of it like the do with anything that has a foreign logo on to make it seem like a china number 1 style post. Also not sure what any kind of statement on it would have done that wouldn't fan a flame in one direction. As for the AU thing, that was if they banned people would rebel, if they didn't people would rebel.), it's shitty. But the other two plus others have actually put lives in danger by pulling off apps that protestors use to keep themselves safe. That's magnitudes worse. When it comes to google and people using Youtube to slam blizzard to me it feels like false outrage.
Basically rallying behind a cause while actually going against your cause by using a platform that's owned by a company that is guilty of all the same things plus more. To me at least it actually feels more like "How can I make internet points and money off rage." if they're using google owned platform for the message, or use apple products at the same time which most of these people are, especially people like Heelsvsbabyface when everything he does is post anti blizzard, add commercials every 5 minutes in the video, since he can't function in a real job and lost a ton of money when he stopped playing wow (Taliesin had the best show about that with him saying he hates bananas and every five minutes Evitel finds him eating one and complaining about eating bananas when all he has to do is top eating bananas.). It's like Sideshow Bob in the Simpson's using TV to cry about TV then trying to cop out with "I know the Irony.".
As for going forward. Imo as much as I doubt Brack banned Blitz, decided on the initial punishment etc (I'm sure that was done in Taiwan) behind the scenes he and people around him should find a way to get him a payoff for him to fall on his sword so to speak. He may not have done anything personally but he's the face of it and it's on him. Don't let the number be released (even if it was something like $1m it won't look good). Beg Morhaime to come back to steady the ship, he's like, he's presentable, he's media savvy. Everything Brack wasn't even before "You think you do but you don't.". If you're going to be the face you have to be known to the public and at least liked by a certain %. I mean Metzen if it was a figurehead position would be perfect. Loved, Charismatic to a fault, some story guys may have issues but that's about it.
Maybe 2-3 years of leave Brack could come back at a mid tier level, he did things right before. It's just the position of President when it comes with being a face doesn't work with someone that really isn't media savvy.
Im not sure how to reply (>_<)
I just feel sorry for Hong Kong, that is all...they are fighting for freedom
"Police have arrested more than 2,300 people since June. Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has said that, since September, nearly 40% of those arrested were under the age of 18 and 10% under 15, without giving the total number of arrests."
KIDS...fucking kids fighting for freedom...so sad