Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs away from its site

Re:Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs... by ggggtez on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @09:07PM (#26733830)

If you go on Facebook and say "Hey, I'm going to go shoot up a school on twitch tomorrow", then Twitch can ban you. Previously, it was unclear that this was bannable because it didn't occur on site.

Phrasing this as an argument against "Cancel Culture" is the ultimate moral hand-wringing. There is nothing even closely resembling what you're talking about in this change. This is no slippery slope. This is just the obvious result of people realizing that the internet is real life.

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Re:Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs... by read_if_gay_ on Thursday April 08, 2021 @03:55AM (#26736181)

Thank God Twitch is stopping people from livestreaming how they shoot up a school. It's not like we have mechanisms that work to actually prevent those events in the first place. We really need internet mob justice to provide a non-solution to this already-solved problem.

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