They probably banned him for saying certain words, shall we guess which words?

Twitch was at the center of the Hogwarts Legacy game controversy because people were mad that certain streamers were playing a game because something something JK Rowling is an "anti trans TERF."

And if you ever looked through videos of TwitchCon you would not question what I'm saying at all. This is the event that still required everyone to wear a mask late 2022 only after Twitch was guilted into it.

> This is the event that still required everyone to wear a mask late 2022 only after Twitch was guilted into it.

Oh no, they bowed to people whose livelihoods depend on staying healthy and realized that masks actually do help when everyone wears them.

Hell, I kinda wish we'd kept it up everywhere. Not having anyone in my house get so much as the flu for about 2.5 years was kinda awesome. I think we had a single mild cold go through our house, that entire time.

How do they help? There is no evidence that they reduce infection of respiratory viruses.

> The pooled results of RCTs did not show a clear reduction in respiratory viral infection with the use of medical/surgical masks. There were no clear differences between the use of medical/surgical masks compared with N95/P2 respirators in healthcare workers when used in routine care to reduce respiratory viral infection.

https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD...

And googling the key line there reveals a full page of Google results with articles explaining how both the initial assumptions and methodology was flawed. It was surprising even to me how easy it was to find rebuttals.

https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/yes-masks-reduce-risk-spre...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/10/opinion/masks-work-cochra...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/02/16/cochrane-...

At least, unlike the other person in this thread, you didn't do the gaslighty thing of acting like 'we all know' masks don't work.

As per your first link, rate of infection with masks was 90% the rate of infection without masks. I mean, technically it "works" even if reduces the rates of infection by 0.0000001%. But most people are not going to see much benefit in masking if it only reduces the rate marginally.

The intensity of the push for masking was not at all matched by the effectiveness of masking. From most people's perspectives, if the rate of infection with masking is 90% the rate with no masking then masking doesn't work in layperson's terms.

Speaking as someone who actually has an advanced degree in science and understands how to read papers and interpret medical evidence (unlike Tufecki, who has literally zero scientific training or understanding of statistics) has read ~every paper on masks ever published, the "rebuttals" there are nonsense.

The Cochrane review was not incorrect; it was not retracted. The "apology from Cochrane" was not about the paper itself, and they didn't say that the conclusions were wrong. The NY Times and the Washington Post and Gavi are just wrong, and they're lying. Full stop. By literally the same standards of evidence they are using ("the lower bound of the confidence interval crosses 1.0, so we can't exclude the possibility of benefit"), Ivermectin and HCQ "work" against Covid. So you either accept both claims, or you reject both.

We have two political teams, each advancing separate-but-equal forms of pseudo-sciencey twaddle, and neither side is willing to admit that the actual data doesn't back their opinions:

https://sensiblemed.substack.com/p/the-cochrane-mask-fiasco

Gonna go with "wearing a mask to stop particulate spread" is not separate but equal from taking horse dewormer. (And it's not an exaggeration to characterize it as such when they're literally buying drugs from farm suplly stores and injecting amounts meant for livestock over the course of a few days.)

Similarly, I don't know anyone who has died from wearing a mask.

This is not even to mention the numerous other studies, experiments, and demsonstartsions of all sorts of respiratory protective gear that show effectiveness against particulates smaller even than COVID-19.

Oh, stop. Ivermectin is a human drug. The fact that you're repeating this line shows that you're not commenting in good faith.

Quite literally, the evidence for both is equally good (or bad). Citing mechanistic or laboratory studies is absurd, when we have actual RCTs.

Yeah, okay. Lmk when there's telegram groups of people injecting 10x the human dose of masks and literally dying.

>masks actually do help when everyone wears them.

Could I get a citation for this please? Just about every source I've seen has since admitted that masks did absolutely nothing for the purposes for which they were advised to be used.

When you dig into those studies, they aren't that great either fwiw.

If you ask what JK said that was so bad, you won't get a direct quote. It's very telling.

> This is the event that still required everyone to wear a mask late 2022 only after Twitch was guilted into it.

Not spreading a deadly virus at convention filled with strangers from all over the world is now considered "leftist extremism". The last 8 or so years really have done a number on people.

The funniest part of that was how it entirely backfired, their trantrums just got more people interested in the game and pissed off at these activists.

We're also seeing more people rallying behind JK Rowling these days too, perhaps after seeing through the lies and realising that, actually, she bravely put herself out there to stand up for women's rights, knowing this would make her a lightning rod for the abusers and harassers of the pro-gender movement.

> Twitch was at the center of the Hogwarts Legacy game controversy because people were mad that certain streamers were playing a game because something something JK Rowling is an "anti trans TERF."

And most ignored that BS. Twitch has a very loud radical left community, but I think it's also far smaller than they appear. Most people are just somewhere in the middle, with a bit more left leaning for natural reasons. After all, most people on the platform are quite young.

> This is the event that still required everyone to wear a mask late 2022 only after Twitch was guilted into it.

Cons were already a deathtrap before the pandemia. The After-Con-Flu was not just a running joke. Taking the chance and making sure that your lifehood stays healthy, seems more pragmatic than leftist to me.

So why did not these people wanting to avoid flu in con. Do either of simple things. Not go there. Or wear proper protective gear. Like a gasmask?

Leftist extremism: depends on your definition, but see AI generated Seinfeld banned because of a joke[1]

Incel culture: I don't agree with this one, I don't think it's something widespread

Softcore porn: The whole hot tub/asmr categories. Amouranth herself says she uses twitch as a billboard to get people to her onlyfans[2]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/06/nothing-fore...

[2] https://twitter.com/jappleby/status/1597327662644858880

"Banned because of a joke"

> “I’m thinking about doing a bit about how being transgender is actually a mental illness,” Larry said on the clip. > > “Or how all liberals are secretly gay and want to impose their will on everyone. Or something about how transgender people are ruining the fabric of society.”

Where's the joke?

Also a temporary ban. "Leftist Extremism", or just "capitalism where advertisers have content expectations". If "just shouting insults into the void" is jokes, I fear a bit for the future.

"It's an AI!" is not really much of an excuse! You're the one generating garbage and throwing it onto Twitch, it's your responsibility to figure out what's going on.

There are definitely more nefarious things out there on the platform in general, just funny how every rant about "leftist" bans fails the most basic scrutiny.

Hasan isn't an extremist?

Sure, let's explore that. What are Hasan's extremist views? And keep in mind that I'm gonna cite Aden, Sneako, Trainwrecks, Mizkif and more in response.

I don't care who you cite. I'm not playing some dumb 'my team' game lol

He used to work for The Young Turks, hosts streams with AOC and Ilhan Omar, is quoted as saying, "On Crenshaw, Piker said, "What the fuck is wrong with this dude? Didn’t he go to war and like literally lose his eye because some mujahideen, a brave fucking soldier fucked his eye hole with their dick?"

And

"In the same stream, Piker criticized American foreign policy and made controversial comments relating to the September 11 attacks, including "America deserved 9/11, dude.""

This is literally just skimming his wiki. Do you know anything about the guy? He's a gigantic PoS

Hasan was right about all of that.

yeah extremely reasonable

“We fucking fund the people who did 9/11—still, to this day. Donald Trump literally went on national television and said, ‘They bought $10 billion worth of weapons,’ so if they chop-chop-chop an American legal permanent resident, it’s OK.”