In the early days, esports’ only consistent involvement with politics was the occasional visa issue or scapegoating by an ill-informed politician. But this summer, esports and politics seem to be running in lockstep. There’s the antitrust lawsuit between Epic Games and Apple, a bill put into the US House of Representatives regulating the US Army’s Twitch channel, and the backlash to BLAST and the LEC’s NEOM sponsorships.
Well, the hits keep on coming. On Wednesday, September 1st, India banned 118 apps with ties to China as tensions rise over a border dispute between the two countries.