If you allow this for Hong Kong can someone else call out support for other political activities even ones you don't agree with.
Blizzard has had plenty of people make political statements about, say, LGBT issues and has NEVER invoked this "rule" before. They even had a US-based team do exactly the same thing and failed to issue any ban until the hypocrisy was repeatedly pointed out to them.
It is the selective enforcement that is the issue, as well as the heavy-handed punishment.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jun/25/swiss-xhaka...
Even then, the potential punishment was a 2-match ban. They wouldn't have stripped Switzerland of the victory,banned them for a year, and taken away all the money they earned throughout the entire season (all things that Blizzard did)
That’s the beauty of freedom of speech but also shows rightfully that it is not freedom from speech.
Except that Blizzard does make political statements when it thinks it will be profitable.
>If you allow this for Hong Kong can someone else call out support for other political activities even ones you don't agree with.
And so what? I'm perfectly able to distinguish somebody's opinion from the official position of Blizzard and wouldn't hold that opinion against them.