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Due to Blizzard's willingness to not only capitulate with China's censorship and human rights violations, but to enforce those views
globally, I'm ceasing all support for their products and services.
As a result,
there will be no more Hearthstone streams as I will be uninstalling BattleNet entirely. Additionally, I've removed the link to the Hearthstone page on this blog and will be replacing links to any of their sites or services with a link to "
How To Support the Hong Kong Protesters".
To be clear, this is both a boycott and condemnation of Blizzard's actions. In the coming days or weeks, I assume Blizzard may attempt walking back their stance somewhat in the form of some half-hearted apology or other meaningless gesture. This (to me)
will not suffice. Even reversing their decision entirely gives no assurance that they won't try it again (or something worse).
To engage in questionable and manipulative business practices for the sake of profit is bad enough, and while I complained about it, I still streamed games made by these companies in the hope that things could change. When Blizzard
globally changed Hearthstone card art to comply with Chinese law, I complained about it, but still streamed the game. Now Blizzard is willing to
globally enforce China's censorship of speech, and in doing so, tacitly approving of human rights violations in the name of profit. I refuse to support that in any form.
