- Tencent makes Boston games unavailable on website
- NBA has been subject to blackout in China in the past
Highlights and livestreams of Boston Celtics games have been erased from the NBA’s Chinese broadcast partner after one of the team’s players attacked government policy in Tibet.
Enes Kanter, the team’s veteran center, spoke out on what he called “cultural genocide” in Tibet. The region has been under Chinese rule for decades. During that time the government has jailed and allegedly beaten monks and nuns, subjected villages to political education sessions, jailed people who have promoted local languages, enacted mass surveillance, and placed restrictions on daily life and education. China claims it peacefully liberated Tibet and freed the region from the feudal system.