Video streaming platform Twitch temporarily suspended President Donald Trump's channel and social me

[Budi]

https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/06/29/reddit-bans-pro-trump-forum-in-crackdown-on-hate-speech-344698?__twitter_impression=true

Video streaming platform Twitch temporarily suspended President Donald Trump's channel and social media site Reddit banned a longtime forum used by his supporters in separate actions Monday aimed at curtailing hateful content that come as the tech industry grapples with its handling of the president.

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman announced in a post that the r/The_Donald forum, which boasted over 790,000 subscribers as of earlier Monday, has been shuttered for frequent rule-breaking, antagonizing the company and other communities and for failing to “meet our most basic expectations.” Huffman said it’s one of about 2,000 newly banned forums — known as subreddits — including at least one prominent progressive community, as part of a broader crackdown aimed at “closing the gap between our values and our policies to explicitly address hate.”

“All communities on Reddit must abide by our content policy in good faith,” Huffman wrote. “We banned r/The_Donald because it has not done so, despite every opportunity.” Reddit said the ban took effect at 1 p.m. Eastern time.

Twitch, a subsidiary of the e-commerce giant Amazon, confirmed on Monday that it has separately suspended Trump's campaign channel on the platform for posting videos that ran afoul of its rules against content that “promotes, encourages or facilitates discrimination, denigration, objectification, harassment or violence” based on an individual’s identity.

A company spokesperson said the channel violated its rules by rebroadcasting a video of Trump's 2015 event kicking off his presidential candidacy, in which he referred to Mexican immigrants as “rapists."

[bamagal62]

1. I've never even heard of Twitch.

[Budi]

2. I have only heard of it in ref to a nasty hate-tweet which was promptly suspended by Twitter

There appear to be many accts like this one & they all have sub-accounts.

[crickets]

3. My only contact with Twitch is through gaming.

A fair number of gamers have found that real time "Let's Play" streams w/subscriber chats are easier to do on Twitch than YouTube. It's another source of revenue as well, given it's harder and harder to make money with gaming content since YT keeps changing their rules and analytics.