From RT.com….
Live-streaming platform Twitch is dramatically expanding the list of behaviors that get users banned. Its new policy not only governs all offline behavior but bizarrely purports to be an arm of the digital justice system.
Twitch users found to have committed any sort of crimes in the past, from credible threats against Twitch staff to “terrorist activities or recruiting,” may find themselves booted off the platform even if they haven’t done anything to menace Twitch users online, according to new rules released by the streaming platform on Wednesday.
In January, we began enforcing our updated Hateful Conduct and Harassment policy so we could better protect every person on Twitch.
Today, we want to share our plans for how we’ll handle incidents that happen off Twitch.
Read the blog here: https://t.co/vBnoY6nPau pic.twitter.com/KQX1ZBsRVg
— Twitch (@Twitch) April 7, 2021
The existing policies on Twitch were already somewhat confusing – users could sing along with a song that included slurs of some type, but only if the song itself was “not hateful” nor combined with “other discriminating or denigrating content” – but the notion of the social media platform hiring enough employees and partnering with “an experienced investigations law firm” to be able to go after literally everyone who’s ever made an expression of contempt, hatred, or disgust based on a protected characteristic seems absurd.
