On December 17, Reuters reported that Amazon CN (China's Amazon domain) was forced to disable the reviews on Xi Jinping's 'The Governance of China', citing 2 anonymous sources.
https://archive.md/LRd27
:reddit-logo: interpreted the article to say that China has forced American Amazon to delete any reviews of the book that are less than 5 stars, only keeping the 5 star reviews.
https://archive.md/ah4Wn
https://archive.md/teepA
Since the publication of the article, there have been dozens of fake 1 star reviews posted on 'The Governance of China' on American Amazon.
https://archive.md/tcsWu
https://archive.md/T0Waa
I think that guy explicitly broke Blizzard's 'no politics' rule to martyr himself.
Also one of their largest markets is the Chinese market and it turns out a lot of mainland Chinese people actually agree with the government positions and upsetting them would lose Blizzard way more users than upsetting a few terminally online Americans with zero political or historical literacy.
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Yep, zero threat to just paneer to the Chinese users. This thing that they blame on the communist party is actually just Blizzard being capitalist lol
Communism is when Blizzard does stuff