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0 pointsPM_me_your_math3y ago0 comments

That have never mattered to the mob. Anyone who questions this new religion must be silenced.

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I don’t really see a mob on this one. Twitch has a platform policy that they enforced - probably a little too heavily here. Is there some sort of community outcry elsewhere?

I think most people who understand the context of the clip (AI-generated Seinfeld) — even if, like me, their hackles rise at any kind of possibly-transphobic material - would think this was pretty tame/kinda funny.

throwaway8943453y ago

Agreed. This is more censorship than I'd prefer, but at least it was censorship by policy rather than censorship by mob whim (granted, the policy was probably shaped to avoid the sort of mob behavior we witnessed over the last decade).

pleadthefifth3y ago

I think it's more that Twitch's leadership takes certain things like this personally.

clnq3y ago

> I don’t really see a mob on this one

Well, it either had to be mass-reported or spread online as a hate incident. I think Twitch mostly over-reacts to those.

DoctorOW3y ago

Is there evidence of this? It seems like nobody was even really talking about this before the ban and I find it hard to believe a huge movement rose up and then vanished without a trace.

clnq3y ago

I did not say it was a huge movement. But it was big enough to get the account suspended by reporting it.

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ketzo3y ago

I don’t really see a mob on this one. Twitch has a platform policy that they enforced - probably a little too heavily here. Is there some sort of community outcry elsewhere?

throwaway8943453y ago

pleadthefifth3y ago

I think it's more that Twitch's leadership takes certain things like this personally.

clnq3y ago

> I don’t really see a mob on this one

Well, it either had to be mass-reported or spread online as a hate incident. I think Twitch mostly over-reacts to those.

DoctorOW3y ago

Is there evidence of this? It seems like nobody was even really talking about this before the ban and I find it hard to believe a huge movement rose up and then vanished without a trace.

clnq3y ago

I did not say it was a huge movement. But it was big enough to get the account suspended by reporting it.

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