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Re:Twitch nabs exclusive streaming deal with Blizzard for e-... by panic on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @04:13AM (#14601863)
I hope Twitch chat never becomes more of a police state than it already is.

This isn't a great analogy. Twitch doesn't use physical violence against people chatting on their website. The normalization of racism and bigotry through ironic edginess has much more potential to cause real-world violence than chat moderation.

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Re:Twitch nabs exclusive streaming deal with Blizzard for e-... by ygaf on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @06:30AM (#14602514)
There's nothing wrong with the analogy (except being dramatic).

edit: this isn't agreeing with the parent poster, as a police state is about the level of control, not whether violence is used which is a fact of policing anyway.

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