> Which makes me believe we need some kind of trusted "morality authority", which would process information similar to this and make informed decisions who to boycott
Just sounds like cancel culture to me. And it has horrible results.
Cancel culture is about _using_ censorship to limit free speech, which blizzard purposefully participated in on behalf of China, so we want to stop that limiting and encourage free speech, or at least not immediately ban someone for a year and 0 their prize money.
One fights for censorship, the other fights for freedom. I uninstalled hearthstone, which is the last activision blizzard product I used.
Right, you cancelled Hearthstone from your life because you don't care for the actions of its creators. Not unlike, say, ceasing to watch a comedian because you don't like how they punch down, or ceasing to book rms for speaking engagements because he's too stressful to deal with.
Don't shy away from it; that's "cancel culture."
(Or, more accurately, "cancel culture" doesn't exist; it's just freedom of association in action ;) ).
> We don't have to argue with anybody. We don't have to curse and go around acting bad with our words. We don't need any bricks and bottles, we don't need any Molotov cocktails, we just need to go around to these stores, and to these massive industries in our country, and say, God sent us by here, to say to you that you're not treating his children right. And we've come by here to ask you to make the first item on your agenda – fair treatment, where God's children are concerned. Now, if you are not prepared to do that, we do have an agenda that we must follow. And our agenda calls for withdrawing economic support from you.
Just sounds like cancel culture to me. And it has horrible results.