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Twitch, the Amazon-owned video streaming platform primarily used by gamers to livestream their games, announced a new policy Wednesday empowering the company to take action against users who display certain harmful behaviors entirely offline.
The policy represents a unique approach among social media peers at a time when the industry has been under escalating pressure to institute strong and consistent content-moderation policies. As lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have threatened to strip online platforms of their liability protections under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, many platforms have taken steps to place stronger guardrails on what users can post.
Under the new policy, Twitch can suspend users for up to an indefinite period of time after a third-party investigator determines there is strong evidence the person has engaged in certain offline behaviors. These actions include engaging in deadly violence, terrorist activities, grooming children for sexual exploitation, committing sexual assault or even "acting as an accomplice to non-consensual sexual activities." It will also continue to consider offline harassment in cases where a user alleges abuse online.
Twitch said it will work with "an experienced investigations law firm" to determine the validity of claims, which will rely at times on accessing evidence from law enforcement. The company said it would not take action on a user's account until it concludes its investigation and confirms evidence of wrongdoing.
The harmful offline behaviors do not need to involve another Twitch user to be considered a violation, a spokesperson confirmed. That's based on the notion that people who engage in these types of behaviors are more likely to create safety risks for the Twitch community, the spokesperson added.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 12 2021, @04:46PM (12 children)
The distinction between on-line and off-line no longer exists. Get over it. If you're a dick on-line, then chances are you're a dick off-line as well and vice versa; or in other words: if you're a dick, you're a dick; stop being a dick.
That being said: do I like this? Not one iota. This is the equivalent of the Americanization of foods: make everything bland and without character, just to appeal to the broadest swath of unwashed masses.
Amazon should go further: in order to protect whoever it is they are attempting to protect, they should shut down the entire thing. Just close it, nuke it from orbit to be sure. That way, no-one will be offended by anyone.
Here we were, always being afraid of the gubment trying to turn us into unfree creatures, when all the while, it was corporations that are the ones to fear the most. Next stop: if you receive 3 strikes on Twitch, all your prices at amazon.com go up by 30%. Good luck proving that since you're the only one seeing it and we'll explain it away as "dynamic pricing".
(Score: 5, Funny) by DannyB on Monday April 12 2021, @05:11PM (5 children)
There are lots, just LOTS of American foods which are not bland.
Tacos
Pizza
General Tsu's Chicken
Chicken tikka masala
The anti vax hysteria didn't stop, it just died down.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 12 2021, @05:36PM (3 children)
You've not been all too far from your own little town, have you?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday April 12 2021, @07:42PM (2 children)
lol - I saw the irony in pointing out non-American foods to prove that American foods aren't bland. Not that I entirely agree with him, but the irony is there.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @01:46AM
wooooooooooooooooooooooosh
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @05:01AM
Most of those items bare essentially no resemblance to the food items that inspired them.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 12 2021, @07:44PM
Chicken tikka masala is British, not American.
(Score: 0, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday April 12 2021, @08:26PM (4 children)
Oh look, Jews, trannies, and Jewish trannies ruin yet another online community with their Bolshevik nonsense. What nobody has brought up yet is, how "offline" behavior will be reconciled with "online" behavior. I'm honestly asking you all this question because I don't know twitch's new user vetting process. FIrst of all, do they require positive proof of ID? How does that work? And once they have you identified then, say, you break the rules and they put you under investigation. What does that entail? LexisNexus, some kind of general criminal background check? Or, since the ADL is involved, abuse of a foreign or domestic intelligence apparatus and their databases.
Finally, since the ADL and their stooges are running this, it's gonna be the same way it always was: People with American flags in their backgrounds will be immediately subject to investigation regardless of offense, while child molesting and animal abusing Jews will be given a free pass to air their perversions because they call themselves "anti-racists" and have a BLM flag or something.
Ohhhhh Noooooo, thaaaaat suuuuuuucks! Good thing since everybody and their mom has Amazon, I can ask somebody else to buy my shit for me.
If the powers that be were really interested in making online a better place, then they would have fair standards about how the rules are enforced. Obviously, the rules are not fairly enforced, ergo, this is just another desperate layer of shielding the Jews from legitimate criticism. Also, nice slippery slope, it's more sloped than a Jew's forehead.
(Score: 0, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 12 2021, @08:36PM (2 children)
Right on, brother! Heil Hitler!
(Score: 0, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday April 12 2021, @09:52PM (1 child)
Hitlers are made, not born. And being banned from your favorite platform for having an American flag or boycotting Major League baseball is a good way to create more Hitlers, especially while Twitch allows user AntifaACABKillWhitey✡☭✡☭✡☭'s channel about destroying storefronts to stay up after repeated complaints of violence and extremism.
The ADL are not out to censor people, that is incidental. They are out to create new enemies to keep those donations flowing in, FBI-style, and regardless of how many other uninvolved people suffer for the ADL's actions. Jewish Trick #127: Although Jews are depicted as overreacting, A true Jew cannot be offended while his interests are at stake.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday April 13 2021, @12:20PM
What I'm hearing from you is "let us do whatever we want or we'll kill you, literally Nazi-style, and blame you for making us kill you." The Russians have a saying for times like this, and that saying is "idi na khuy."
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 14 2021, @06:31AM
That's fine, I'm sick of twitch anyway, maybe I subscribe to one channel, so I don't see ads, but any channel with ads is unwatchable. Who the fuck drinks Coke in 2021? That shit has 50g of sugary substitute. If it's not one sugary bevarage it's another. I really must not the the target demographic for this shit, so please stop showing it to me.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday April 13 2021, @01:19AM
And yet, whenever I point out to certain people that a business that gets powerful enough *is* effectively a government agency, I get a lot of wharrrgarbling and bullshit and deflection...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...