Trump's account Suspended for hate conduct violations
Yesterday in The Huffington Post;In response to:
Twitch Suspends Trump’s Account For Violating ‘Hateful Conduct’ Rules
The Amazon-owned livestreaming platform said two recent streams on the president’s channel prompted the suspension.
Twitch, the livestreaming platform popular with gamers, has suspended President Donald Trump’s channel for violating its rules on “hateful conduct,” making it the latest social media platform to move against him.
The Amazon-owned site said Monday that two recent streams violated those policies. The first was a recent rebroadcast of Trump’s 2015 campaign kickoff speech, during which he suggested Mexican immigrants were criminals and rapists. The other offending stream was from Trump’s June 20 campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when he spoke of a “very tough hombre” breaking into the home of a “young woman whose husband is away.”
“Hateful conduct is not allowed on Twitch,” a Twitch spokesperson said in a statement to HuffPost. “In line with our policies, President Trump’s channel has been issued a temporary suspension from Twitch for comments made on stream, and the offending content has been removed.”
Twitch’s community guidelines define hateful conduct as “any content or activity that promotes, encourages, or facilitates discrimination, denigration, objectification, harassment, or violence based on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, s*xual orientation, age, disability or serious medical condition or veteran status,” and any such conduct is considered a “zero-tolerance violation.”
The move comes after the site pledged last week to increase its efforts to combat harassment and hate on the service after facing an outpouring of s*xual assault and abuse allegations involving Twitch streamers. The decision to suspend Trump’s account comes amid recent moves from other tech companies to take action against the president’s rhetoric online. Since last month, Twitter has started labeling his tweets with warnings when they violate its rules, and on Monday, Reddit banned a popular pro-Trump subreddit as part of its crackdown on hate speech.
Twitch Suspends Trump’s Account For Violating ‘Hateful Conduct’ Rules
The Amazon-owned livestreaming platform said two recent streams on the president’s channel prompted the suspension.
Twitch, the livestreaming platform popular with gamers, has suspended President Donald Trump’s channel for violating its rules on “hateful conduct,” making it the latest social media platform to move against him.
The Amazon-owned site said Monday that two recent streams violated those policies. The first was a recent rebroadcast of Trump’s 2015 campaign kickoff speech, during which he suggested Mexican immigrants were criminals and rapists. The other offending stream was from Trump’s June 20 campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when he spoke of a “very tough hombre” breaking into the home of a “young woman whose husband is away.”
“Hateful conduct is not allowed on Twitch,” a Twitch spokesperson said in a statement to HuffPost. “In line with our policies, President Trump’s channel has been issued a temporary suspension from Twitch for comments made on stream, and the offending content has been removed.”
Twitch’s community guidelines define hateful conduct as “any content or activity that promotes, encourages, or facilitates discrimination, denigration, objectification, harassment, or violence based on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, s*xual orientation, age, disability or serious medical condition or veteran status,” and any such conduct is considered a “zero-tolerance violation.”
The move comes after the site pledged last week to increase its efforts to combat harassment and hate on the service after facing an outpouring of s*xual assault and abuse allegations involving Twitch streamers. The decision to suspend Trump’s account comes amid recent moves from other tech companies to take action against the president’s rhetoric online. Since last month, Twitter has started labeling his tweets with warnings when they violate its rules, and on Monday, Reddit banned a popular pro-Trump subreddit as part of its crackdown on hate speech.
Hopefully the hate on here by Trump's supporters will also be more closely modulated. It's time for change to a society, more accepting of cultural differences & ethnicities, and less accepting of hate, trolling & racial discrimination.
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Shame they cannot follow the other members who moved to CS and post decent and non-argumentative posts.
r - some people are slow to learn, and the slowest never learn in their lifetime.
c-r - Freedom of speech does not include hate words targeting minorities, or anyone.
Bezos demonstrates, that the president is not above the law.
It's time for Barr, and many of the republicans in congress, as well as Trump's supporters
to understand and abide by this.
GEORGE FLOYDPublished June 8
Jeff Bezos 'happy to lose' customers over Black Lives Matter message
Your freedom of speech would not have been thwarted had you chosen to express yourself without disparaging people who genuinely experience mental illness.
Discrimination has it's roots entangled in language and the way we use it; with freedom of speech comes responsibility.
I have yet to make a comment about the particulars of Trump being suspended from a platform owned by Jeff Bezos, other than I said, "My word, that's interesting."
I haven't commented further because I think it's a multi-faceted issue which I wish to observe and think about.
I don't need to think about your use of language: the name calling and negative discrimination is glaringly obvious.
Because CS should disallow emojis then.
The Guessing is to conclude CS is comparable, not the persons.
I don't think either is happening.
They have CS regions but I doubt it would
even on a temporary basis to a region.
This would protect only one freedom of speech: political.They have not restricted any just specific accounts are blocked.
If anyone here longer can "remember a time," I can only speak to the past 7 years here.
No worries
You've still got time to get skype #s.
Opinions.. The corrections people will come and remove your emoji.
No laughing.
I didn't say anyone had thwarted your language. It's your responsibility to do that.
I said that freedom of speech is not thwarted by articulating opinion without using discriminatory language.