The person grabbing that should be identified and publicly shamed.

I say we remove mainland China from the games entirely. They can control their own games they host and tell everyone they don’t like to fuck off (they won’t have to, nobody likes Beijing, nobody would go).

I live in Canada. If I can draw a parallel, would my sign be confiscated if it said “Manitoba”?

At the very least, Taiwan is a district/state/province of China. It may also be a country, depending on who you ask, I suppose.

So why did anyone else care enough to have security go and forcibly remove it from that person?

Politics. That’s why.

I bet they’d be fine with someone holding up a sign for “Zhejiang” or “Guangdong” or any other province.

This is stupid.

Incidentally, there’s a related thread in !europe@feddit.org. Links to it in a handful of instances:

• https://aussie.zone/post/12360961
• https://feddit.org/post/1597354
• https://lemmy.world/post/18303658
• https://sh.itjust.works/post/23242817