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The Oct. 12 game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Brooklyn Nets in the Chinese city of Shenzhen might have seemed like business as usual, with thousands of basketball fans out in force for the rare opportunity to see their beloved But below the surface, tensions were high at the second of what have likely been the two most geopolitically controversial preseason exhibition games in NBA history. © Copyright 2020 Variety Media, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC.
We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Click to expand the Mega Menu Click to Expand Search Input South Park, Blizzard swept up in China censorship fury Uncategorized. Seen near the Blockbuster Video of the Marsh family. By KELVIN CHAN .
From Season 10 Episode 08, Make Love, Not Warcraft.
At Blizzard headquarters, the board members realize that the killer represents a threat to the entire World Of Warcraft. From drama with the NBA to "South Park" to Activision Blizzard, censorship from the Chinese government is only growing. Blizzard Entertainment, the company behind World of Warcraft, played a role in helping co-creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker throughout the creation/animation process of the episode. “Viacom as a whole did not get x-ed out because of ‘South Park.’ Paramount movies have received release dates since then.”One tactic Western companies have used is to put out different messages to different audiences.
Associated Press. "Super Fun Time" - Seen in his Blizzard uniform, riding in a bumper car. Many companies and industries have chosen to turn the other cheek at the behest of tapping that 1.3 billion people market. Comedy Central's South Park recently lampooned Hollywood's affinity for catering to the demands of China, ... owns a 5 percent stake in Blizzard Activision.
The mainland’s ruling Communist Party has portrayed the protests as a counterrevolutionary separatist movement spurred on by “foreign forces” including the U.S., with which China is engaged in a grinding trade war.The country has also just come off its huge 70th anniversary celebrations of the establishment of the People’s Republic, a highly politically sensitive occasion accompanied by heightened censorship.“At such a moment, an influential foreigner or a noteworthy company making statements that touch on Chinese sovereignty is like taking a match to the powder keg,” says Florian Schneider, a professor at Leiden University who studies China’s digital nationalism and politics in Chinese entertainment.Hollywood has traditionally tried to keep China on board by steering clear of hot-button topics such as the Communist Party and Tibet, inserting positive images of China into movies such as “The Martian” and “Gravity,” and refraining from making villains Chinese.“The studios are very aware of what the red lines are and what the points of potential contention are,” says Aynne Kokas, author of “Hollywood Made in China.” “For people who have been paying attention, this is not something that happened suddenly.
After a single tweet by Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey in support of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV refused to air the two games, and nearly all of NBA China’s local sponsors have fled.The angry backlash in the Middle Kingdom has illustrated anew the difficult challenge Western companies face as they do business in a country whose massiveDue to its new status as a global economic and political powerhouse, China is likely to grow even more assertive in its response to anything it deems counter to its interests, some analysts say.“I fear that this is the new normal,” says James McGregor, Greater China chairman of public relations firm APCO Worldwide. It’s the next step in a long, iterative process.”One fear is that the NBA and “South Park” imbroglios will encourage Western companies to practice even more self-censorship regarding China.“What Hollywood and other corporations want is for these issues not to come up in the first place,” says Isaac Stone Fish, a senior fellow at the nonpartisanBut as the situation in Hong Kong grows more intractable and divisive, that studious avoidance may become harder.The NBA found itself in a lose-lose situation, unable to publicly reprimand Morey without causing a firestorm back in the U.S., but faced with China’s wrath over the perceived slight to its sovereignty. Read Next: U.K. Economy Plunges Into Recession Due to Coronavirus Impact, But June Bloom Raises Hope Where Did The Idea Come From Both Matt and Trey are video game nuts with a more-than-passing knowledge of World of Warcraft. He reached a level deemed impossible and even the Blizzard staff couldn't beat him until the boys finally managed to beat him. "Make Love, Not Warcraft" is the eight episode in the tenth season of the American animated television series South Park.