No I'm not annoyed at him, I just recognize the ramifications of what he chose to do and I bet he feels terrible.
It's tough because apologizing makes you look weak and would be taken as an endorsement of China's policy. When you walk into these issues you create quagmires.
Just to add: Blizzard hasn't allowed Taiwanese players to use their flag, all players from Taiwan had to play under the Chinese flag for years now. Blizzard has zero ethics or concern for human rights topics, all about money for them. Goes for a lot of companies, they are quick to blast Trump or do lbgt pride months, as long as it doesn't hurt their wallets or loses them sponsors.
who cares China can't watch the NBA. maybe the owner and players do because they will be making few millions less.
Yeah take the NBA away Let them watch some below high school competition invest in fans from Latin America, Europe, Africa and the other Asian countries
You are sort of conflating concepts as well. You are correct that the freedom of speech constitutionally protected under the First Amendment is limited to protection from government reprisal for speech (with certain very limited exceptions). However, the value our society places on freedom of speech and freedom of expression extends beyond that. Where the lines are drawn, what the repercussions should be, etc. are things we debate.
Knowing how China works, they will just watch illegal streams. They also called to boycott American goods with the trade war then the following week they all stormed to the first Costco grand opening in Shanghai. Costco had to close early.
Kudos to Adam Silver, and professional sports leagues need to seriously think about who they partner with moving forward. When you get in bed with a thin-skinned government regime that believes in a polar opposite ideology than you, there will be major issues at some point.
Sorry, but it’s not worth building a relationship with a country that believes it should get to completely control the terms of partnerships with other entities. The problem lies with the thin-skinned Chinese government, not the fact that Daryl Morey exercised his right to free speech on Twitter.
Actually, given the way that Fertita threw Morey under the bus, if I was Morey, I'd be giving Fertita the finger right now.
China banned Facebook/Twitter and people still found out Morey's twitter instantly. Banning does not stop NBA in China.
Silver Adam is contradicting himself in the statement: "With the diversity comes the belief that whatever our differences, we respect and value each other." "It is not the role of the NBA to adjudicate those differences." LOL LOL LOL But Morey's tweet disrespect the Chinese people??...HELLLOOOOOO At this point, I think Morey need to step down to save the NBA's business or continue on and deteriorate it.
I am pretty sure many of our visiting "China Rockets Fans" are replying on the Iphone too instead of Huawei.
The worst gaming company is Tencent Cause it’s not really a gaming company. It’s just a front for China to collect money from developers who want to put their game in the China market and mobile market. PUBG and Call of Duty mobile go through Tencent
