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Re: Middle Management and the Middle Kingdom - the China Thr
Posted: Mon October 07, 2019 7:05 pm
by BurtReynolds
south park banned in China for episode about Chnese censorship.
https://reason.com/2019/10/07/china-sou ... ensorship/
Much better "apology"
Re: Middle Management and the Middle Kingdom - the China Thr
Posted: Mon October 07, 2019 7:07 pm
by BurtReynolds
Green Habit wrote:Monkey_Driven wrote:Green Habit wrote:It's absolute horseshit if Morey suffers, professional or otherwise, for that tweet.
Yup
I'm very happy to see that there is bipartisan outrage to this.
The general spirit of the Free Speech Clause being accepted as a wide consensus is one of the better development in American politics in the last 40 years or so.
Sadly I don't think any amount of bipartisan outrage will stop most corporations from submitting to China's every demand.
Re: Middle Management and the Middle Kingdom - the China Thr
Posted: Tue October 08, 2019 12:11 pm
by Bi_3
This continued deference to China in everything from Human Rights to Climate Change says everything you need to know about modern internationalism and our enlightened 'global citizens'.
Re: Middle Management and the Middle Kingdom - the China Thr
Posted: Tue October 08, 2019 6:02 pm
by BurtReynolds
Re: Middle Management and the Middle Kingdom - the China Thr
Posted: Tue October 08, 2019 6:21 pm
by bune
20% of the world's population (give or take) is in the Western hemisphere. What's left is a lot of people that these corporations want to sell stuff to.
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Re: Middle Management and the Middle Kingdom - the China Thr
Posted: Tue October 08, 2019 8:05 pm
by BurtReynolds
I know a lot of people at Blizzard. I really want to ask them what they think. They are all very quiet today
Re: Middle Management and the Middle Kingdom - the China Thr
Posted: Tue October 08, 2019 10:05 pm
by Bi_3
Re: Middle Management and the Middle Kingdom - the China Thr
Posted: Wed October 09, 2019 1:33 am
by bune
Re: Middle Management and the Middle Kingdom - the China Thr
Posted: Wed October 09, 2019 1:40 am
by E.H. Ruddock
Man I bet they are happy le batard is on vacation this week
Re: Middle Management and the Middle Kingdom - the China Thr
Posted: Wed October 09, 2019 3:53 pm
by Green Habit
This is getting even worse for the NBA. Looks like the Sixers arena is privately owned, so no First Amendment violation, but that's about as close as you can get to one in practice.
Re: Middle Management and the Middle Kingdom - the China Thr
Posted: Wed October 09, 2019 5:06 pm
by BurtReynolds
Blizzard doubling down too
They cancelled the rest of the interviews heh.
Re: Middle Management and the Middle Kingdom - the China Thr
Posted: Wed October 09, 2019 5:08 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
Green Habit wrote:This is getting even worse for the NBA. Looks like the Sixers arena is privately owned, so no First Amendment violation, but that's about as close as you can get to one in practice.
ESPN isn't even reporting this.
Re: Middle Management and the Middle Kingdom - the China Thr
Posted: Wed October 09, 2019 5:11 pm
by Simple Torture
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Green Habit wrote:This is getting even worse for the NBA. Looks like the Sixers arena is privately owned, so no First Amendment violation, but that's about as close as you can get to one in practice.
ESPN isn't even reporting this.
Fox has it covered:
Re: Middle Management and the Middle Kingdom - the China Thr
Posted: Wed October 09, 2019 5:14 pm
by Bi_3
Snaps to Warren for calling out the NBA, but her silence on the Blizzard controversy sickens me
Re: Middle Management and the Middle Kingdom - the China Thr
Posted: Wed October 09, 2019 5:37 pm
by bune
pretty sure the NBA dwarfs Activision Blizzard in reach.
Re: Middle Management and the Middle Kingdom - the China Thr
Posted: Wed October 09, 2019 5:43 pm
by BurtReynolds
I doubt Warren knows that Blizzard exists, but then again they are huge in Asia because of esports.
Re: Middle Management and the Middle Kingdom - the China Thr
Posted: Wed October 09, 2019 6:42 pm
by Leatherhead
BurtReynolds wrote:I doubt Warren knows that Blizzard exists, but then again they are huge in Asia because of esports.
Blizzard is really Activision Blizzard, they merged in 2008. $7.5 billion revenue in 2018 (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activision_Blizzard), I bet she knows Blizzard exists. Easily in the top 5 of the world's largest video game companies.
CoD, WoW, Overwatch, Hearthstone, Starcraft, Guitar Hero, Candy Crush, etc. etc.
Re: Middle Management and the Middle Kingdom - the China Thr
Posted: Wed October 09, 2019 6:45 pm
by BurtReynolds
Leatherhead wrote:BurtReynolds wrote:I doubt Warren knows that Blizzard exists, but then again they are huge in Asia because of esports.
Blizzard is really Activision Blizzard, they merged in 2008. $7.5 billion revenue in 2018 (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activision_Blizzard), I bet she knows Blizzard exists. Easily in the top 5 of the world's largest video game companies.
CoD, WoW, Overwatch, Hearthstone, Starcraft, Guitar Hero, Candy Crush, etc. etc.
yeah but she's like 80 or something (and I was exaggerating a bit)
Re: Middle Management and the Middle Kingdom - the China Thr
Posted: Wed October 09, 2019 7:44 pm
by Bi_3
Jesus incel Christ team. No one cares about your fucking orcs
Re: Middle Management and the Middle Kingdom - the China Thr
Posted: Wed October 09, 2019 8:02 pm
by BurtReynolds
I thought free trade meant we were gonna export values, not import them.