A mass-shooting incident occurred early on Saturday afternoon in Buffalo, the second-largest city in the state of New York. A gunman armed with a rifle entered a local supermarket, opening fire on the shoppers. The man, donning military-style gear, was apparently acting alone, local media have reported, citing law enforcement. …
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A mass-shooting incident occurred early on Saturday afternoon in Buffalo, the second-largest city in the state of New York. A gunman armed with a rifle entered a local supermarket, opening fire on the shoppers. The man, donning military-style gear, was apparently acting alone, local media have reported, citing law enforcement. …
Read More »Twitch’s bans for off-platform behavior in the name of ‘protection’ look like more high-tech censorship
It is said that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. In that metaphor, if the brick and mortar is good intention, then the signposts that lead to the road are all misleading advertisements. Twitch, which is easily the largest live streaming service in the world, announced that …
Read More »Megalomania or protecting users? New Twitch policy prepares to deplatform for OFF-PLATFORM activity
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 …
Read More »Twitch reverts back to ‘women’ after tweet celebrating ‘Womxn’s History Month’ savaged online
Though the company took to Twitter on Monday to inform users that “March is Womxn’s History Month,” using an alternative styling of “women” in a bid to include non-binary gender identities, it made an abrupt about-face just a few hours later, announcing that it would revert back to the standard …
Read More »‘I’d rather be called a b**ch’: Twitch unites commenters in disgust with tweet celebrating ‘Womxn’s History Month’
March is Women’s History Month, and Twitch wants its users to celebrate. It’s putting female streamers on its front page, showcasing female musicians, and dishing out thousand-dollar grants to deserving female students and entrepreneurs. Oh, and it’s also spelling “Women’s History Month” as “Womxn’s History Month.” Unlike women, who have …
Read More »Amazon-owned Twitch removes anti-union ads pushed by parent company after media and users complain
“Twitch does not allow political advertising, and these ads should never have been allowed to run on our service,” the company said in a statement on Wednesday, thanking the “community” for bringing them to attention. One of the ads, shared on Twitter by journalist and activist Rod “Slasher” Breslau, showed …
Read More »Man behind Twitch masturbation case sues Twitter for banning Trump & promoting ‘socialist propaganda’ from AOC & Ilhan Omar
Estavillo – who sued video game streaming platform Twitch last year after he allegedly received injuries by masturbating too much to female gamers on the site – is now suing Twitter, as well as Democratic Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar, claiming that Trump’s ban has caused him “overbearing pain and …
Read More »Twitch is preparing to introduce a new premium subscription
Developers of Twitch serves the possibility to give a subscription to another user as a gift. Streaming service Twitch has decided to go further and find out how many interesting things can offer users of its viewers and how much money the latter are willing to pay for these services. …
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