User blog comment:Subsourian/On Blizzard, China and the Wiki/@comment-31277203-20191017024130

Subsourian, if you had ever read my post back on the battlenet forums, this is something I've had to put up with my whole life, always being closely monitored and the slightest wrong means savage retribution. Now, moving to what Blizzard did, it shows they did what they did because they didn't want to upset the Chinese government, who as we've all known for many years now, are just authoritarian control freaks. Even their so-called apology (which obviously didn't count) was more of an effort to appease them.

I myself had hoped Blizzard would have at least tried to tell us they have to take a side, but it's clear all they care about is the money. Whoever injects the green dough into their pockets is whoever they'll side with. In this regard Blizzard is just a merc company, with no real sense of conscience or morality. If the client pays well, that's all that matters to them.

As for whatever rules they've claimed, remember that they're somewhat vague. In this regard it's something most of us have known for years: Blizzard deliberately kept things vague because they don't want to paint themselves into a corner, or have other people use their own words against them (hence they whole "Every voice matters" is being used against them right now). But now the audience has had enough, and are saying (which obviously I agree) that this vagueness allows Blizzard to interpret anything in any way they want, and that can easily lead to power abuse, which is exactly what happened days ago.

Yet so far they're just ignoring the whole matter, thinking like it'll blow over by the time of Blizzcon. We all know that's not going to happen, and everyone who goes to Blizzcon won't be forgetting one bit of it. Blizzard needs to understand their audience is NOT comprised of mindless drones who'd believe whatever comes out of their mouths, and they need to understand that staying silent isn't going to make the problem go away.