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Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) acknowledged Friday that it acted too quickly and harshly in sanctioning an esports competitor who used a livestreamed post-match interview to express solidarity with Hong Kong protesters, but defended the need to regulate player behavior. Blizzard said the...

Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI)'s Blizzard Entertainment banned a professional esports gamer and withheld his prize money after he expressed solidarity with anti-government protesters in Hong Kong during a Taiwanese live stream of a Hearthstone tournament. The controversy follows a...