October 24, 2019 09:51 pm
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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/24/20931034/gamers-for-freedom-hong-kong-china-blizzard
Gamers for Freedom is a new group pressuring Blizzard and other publishers about Hong Kong
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Gaming and politics do mix, as the recent furor over Blizzard’s censorship of pro-Hong Kong voices has shown: it hasn’t blown over, and the conflict shows no signs of stopping. Today, a new challenger appeared: the nonprofit organization Fight for the Future, which has spun up a campaign called Gamers for Freedom to put pressure on Blizzard to reevaluate its stances on China and Hong Kong.
Fight for the Future organizes online (and in-person) campaigns to, as they write in their mission statement, “ensure that the web continues to hold freedom of expression and creativity at its core.” (They were the ones who mobilized basically the entire internet against SOPA and PIPA in 2012.) For this latest battle, the org has planned two actions,...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/24/20931034/gamers-for-freedom-hong-kong-china-blizzard
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