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Riot Games is following Blizzard down the drain... Read About Blizzard: https://steempeak.com/gaming/@ash/blizzard-banned-a-pro-gamer-for-a-pro-hong-kong-comment

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Alright, I've now posted this to /r/LivestreamFail and /r/gaming and it's just getting auto-filtered for some reason.

Here's my breakdown of the situation:

For some background, Riot Games is entirely owned by Tencent, which is a primarily Chinese company that invests heavily in the gaming market. Right now, Riot Games is hosting Worlds, their championship cup essentially, and a team by the name of Hong Kong Attitude is being explicitly censored.

Here is why, they had just won a series to go on to the next round, and after a team wins they are always given an after game LIVE interview. This time however there was an obvious delay in the broadcast, reported by multiple users who were at the venue and watching the stream here. They are also saying on the Spanish stream the interview appeared way before the English stream, so the English stream could trash the interview if needed, which confirms the censorship.

Now the casters are being censored from even saying the words Hong Kong, which can be seen here and here. They are now having to refer to Hong Kong Attitude, as just HK Attitude.

You can definitely expect all interviews from now on to be pre-recorded and censored if needed.

Blizzard is facing all of this backlash, rightfully so, because of their retaliation against a pro player to appease the Chinese market, while Riot Games is preemptively censoring to appease their Chinese overlords.

TLDR: Riot Games is preemptively censoring a pro team Hong Kong Attitude, by prerecording their 'live' interview to make sure they don't support the Hong Kong Riots.

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