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The Athletic是一間成立於2016年的專業運動網站，
站上不提供任何廣告，
純粹靠用戶訂閱來營運，
旗下作者包括了跟Woj齊名的Shams Charania，
乃至於David Aldridge、Sam Amick等知名寫手。

網站日前刊載了一篇文章：
Daryl Morey, Joseph Tsai, the NBA and China: Why the repercussions of a tweet
are about more than money，
內容立場十分親中。

https://bit.ly/2OAxoyt

內文摘錄：

For months, there have been large, occasionally disruptive protests, in Hong
Kong over a few key issues, related to civil liberties. Protestors resisted
an extradition policy from Hong Kong to the mainland that has since been
canceled. Additionally, the protestors have demanded better representation in
government and resisted facial recognition technology and other things that
they view as invasions of privacy that are commonplace in the mainland. A few
of the protests have turned violent, and police have used force against the
protestors.



Boiling down a highly complex issue into a paragraph or two, though, in
China, this isn’t about civil liberty. According to Tsai, and others
interviewed by The Athletic, it’s about national sovereignty, and about
everyone playing by the same rules. Hong Kong is a part of China, and the
people there should play by the same rules as the people on the mainland.



But the other side to this is that many Chinese residents, perhaps even the
ones who buy the Nike basketball shoe or watch the Warriors or Lakers on
Tencent — might not share the same view of the protests as many might in
America. And that’s what makes all of this deeper than merely a financial
problem for the league, for the Rockets and for Tsai, who has business
interests all over the world.




此文一出，
頓時在美國引起大批反彈聲浪，
The Athletic甚至還不得不暫停了本文的留言功能，
而Reddit上也有許多美國鄉民揚言要撤銷訂閱。

Reddit討論文：
https://bit.ly/2Mneb0h

美國鄉民更發現，
本文作者Joe Vardon在推特上的橫幅照，
就是他在萬里長城上的自拍相片，
顯然對中國極有好感：

Joe Vardon推特：
https://twitter.com/joevardon

但在此同時，
除了The Athletic之外，
針對這起Morey事件，
也有許多美國媒體採取噤聲或斥責Morey的態度，
好比以譁眾取寵著稱的電視球評Stephen A Smith便對Morey十分不諒解。

而ESPN也一直對Morey議題閃閃躲躲，
幾乎沒有重點報導此事，
因為ESPN的母公司就是迪士尼，
而迪士尼在中國的商業利益十分龐大，
所以不肯對此事表態，
以免牽連迪士尼的電影、周邊商品甚至是主題樂園遭禁。

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