PDS 10.9 Why People Are Freaking Out About Dolan Twins, Ecuador, Mei, Hong Kong & Robert Downey Jr

The Philip DeFranco Show

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🗓️ 9 October 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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0:00.0	Sup ya beautiful bastards. Hope you have a fantastic Wednesday. Welcome back to the Philip
0:04.3	DeFranco show and let's just jump into it. And the first thing we're going to talk about
0:07.5	today are some updates around the massive Blizzard story that we covered yesterday. To oversimplify
0:11.2	if you didn't see Blizzard announced that Chungway who was a professional hearthstone player
0:14.7	would have his prize money rescinded and he was banned from professional play for a year
0:18.4	because he said, liberate Hong Kong during the broadcast.
0:21.1	Also, they fired the two casters who were also there,
0:24.4	but didn't say anything.
0:25.2	So this was seen by many as Blizzard bending a knee to China.
0:28.7	Essentially making the choice to take money
0:30.4	from a communist country, cracking,
0:32.1	I mean, among other things, cracking down on free speech,
0:34.7	over some of their own mission statements,
0:36.4	like think globally,
0:37.6	every voice matters and just their general user base.
0:40.1	So you know, part of what we're seeing are people calling for a boycott of all Blizzard games.
0:44.0	You even had people like Mark Kern, it was a team lead for World of Warcraft,
0:47.1	tweeting this hurts but until Blizzard reverses their decision,
0:49.6	I am giving up playing classic wow, which I helped make and helped convince Blizzard to relaunch. Adding that he's watched China slowly take over
0:55.6	as a dominant investing force in gaming and movies over the years,
0:58.3	saying Chinese game companies have grown huge,
1:00.2	not just because of market size,
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