Some will use the loss of money in China as an acceptable reason for their decision, but most aren't acting like this was anything but an over reaction for a specific reason. The fact is there are a lot of media companies censoring games and movies made in the west, even with most of their profits made here, solely because the CCP does not approve and use their leverage as either financiers or with the promise of future markets to enforce this. In the new version of Top Gun, they took the Japanese and Taiwanese flags off of Tom Cruise's flight jacket for crying out loud!
But people will defend the entertainment industry in a way they never would for the average corporation. Its disturbing to see the kind of rationalizing a lot of people are doing here. Funny enough, it does not seem to divide along right / left lines as usual, so that is something.
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Its about letting an authoritarian regime censor media in other countries. In Korea, in Taiwan, and now in the US. If Blizzard, the other game companies, and Hollywood would rather appease the CCP first and then try to work us to accept that then maybe they should just move there. Hong Kong and all the other problems the PRC has are important, but its different when its happening in your own country and you can do something about it.