<story><title>Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Banned Pro-Hong Kong Gamer</title><url>https://www.thedailybeast.com/blizzard-employees-staged-a-walkout-to-protest-banned-pro-hong-kong-gamer</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jrockway</author><text>The Internet&amp;#x27;s reaction to this has warmed my heart a little.  Overwatch and Hearthstone are among my favorite computer games.  I&amp;#x27;ve certainly played more Overwatch than any other game.  I have made real-world and online friends in Overwatch.  I met my girlfriend in Overwatch.&lt;p&gt;It made me sad to have to throw all that away yesterday.&lt;p&gt;But the conversations we&amp;#x27;re having as a result of this is great.  The mainstream media is talking about it.  Congress is talking about it.  We&amp;#x27;re going to have to ask ourselves: can we really let China have this much influence?  Is it really worth it?  (Remember: this is what Europe is asking about Silicon Valley with things like GDPR, and it&amp;#x27;s working out quite well for them.)&lt;p&gt;Banning someone from Hearthstone GM doesn&amp;#x27;t matter.  But we are heading down a path where we decide what our values are, and they&amp;#x27;re looking pretty good.</text></comment>
<story><title>Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Banned Pro-Hong Kong Gamer</title><url>https://www.thedailybeast.com/blizzard-employees-staged-a-walkout-to-protest-banned-pro-hong-kong-gamer</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>undefined3840</author><text>By far the most egregious example of western firms working with China are management consulting companies like McKinsey that work directly with governments on expensive contracts, including of course China.&lt;p&gt;I mean, in those cases they are often writing the playbook for the government when it comes to implementing certain policies. Crazy that is even legal for a western firm.</text></comment>