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Blizzard , and parent companyActivision Blizzard , have now even attracted the ire of multiple American politico . In a surprising show of bipartisan backup , United States Senators Ron Wyden and Marco Rubio , along with Representatives Alexandria Ocasio - Cortez , Mike Gallagher , and Tom Malinowski , penned a letter to Bobby Kotick , CEO of Activision Blizzard , urging him " in the strongest terms"to reconsider the company ’s recent decisions . Theletter , which can be read in full below , calls Blizzard ’s actions"particularly concerning"with regards to the means China has been pressure legion American businesses latterly .
The letter mentions both Apple and the NBA as victims of China ’s late pushing to stifle free speech and protest of its discourse of Hong Kong , as well as powerfully suggest Blizzard ’s legal action moving forward will have a ripple effect on the intact play biotic community . “Your unsatisfying decisiveness could have a chilling result on gamers who seek to habituate their weapons platform to promote human right and basic freedoms,“it reads . “You have the opportunity to reverse course . We cheer you to take it . “As of decently now , the only change Blizzard has made is tocancel anOverwatchlaunch eventfor the Nintendo Switch .
With the company ’s largest solemnization of the class , BlizzCon , less than two weeks away , Activision Blizzard needs to do something to get back in the populace ’s good gracility soon . Although the caller has stated multiple times their byplay interest in China have nothing to do with theirdecision to ban playersfor speak out against the body politic ’s government , it does n’t look like either the worldwide play audience or United States politicians think them , and their continued utilisation of censoring in Twitch chat only reinforces this impression . If Blizzard does n’t take activity soon , BlizzCon 2019 may top last year ’s disastrousDiablo Immortalreveal as the most upsettingBlizzardconference to date .
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