Knut banned on Twitch days after driving car while distracted by chat Twitch\/KnutTwitch streamer Knut has been banned after getting caught driving a car while responding to his chat at the exact same time. Distracted driving happens every so often on Twitch, but the Amazon-owned platform has been quick to take action whenever there\u2019s a violation of its zero-tolerance policy. Throughout the years there have been a handful of distracted driving incidents on Twitch, normally due to streamers trying to multi-task by responding to chat while navigating the road. On January 2, Twitch streamer Knut was the latest to be hit with a ban after footage surfaced showing him blatantly checking out his chat as he drove. Knut banned on Twitch following distracted driving stream On December 30, a clip showing Knut driving and reading chat was posted to social media, demanding that Twitch take action. \u201cWhy does Twitch always turn a blind eye to distracted driving?\u201d the tweet was captioned. In the footage, Knut could be seen taking his eyes off the road and looking down at his phone and Twitch chat multiple times, while another vehicle could be seen passing him. Days later, it seems like the incident finally caught up with him, as the streamer was hit with a ban. His channel now states, \u201cThis channel is temporarily unavailable due to a violation of Twitch\u2019s Community Guidelines or Terms of Service.\u201d So far, the streamer has yet to comment on the incident or how long the channel will be unavailable for, but it\u2019s unlikely to be permanent. However, if there was an accident as a result of his distracted driving, chances are the ban could have been a lot worse. Last year, a Polish streamer was permabanned on Twitch after running over a dog while being distracted by chat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Knut banned on Twitch days after driving car while distracted by chat Twitch\/KnutTwitch streamer Knut has been banned after getting caught driving a car while responding to his chat at the exact same time. Distracted driving happens every so often on Twitch, but the Amazon-owned platform has been quick to take action whenever there\u2019s a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}