Overwatch streamer banned for hate speech after calling South American players \u201cshit\u201d Twitter \/ @FareehaAndersenTwitch streamer Fareeha Andersen has had her account banned for \u201cengaging in hateful conduct against a person or group of people\u201d, after she called a team of South American Overwatch players \u201cshit\u201d. The ban will last 30 days, and will also leave Andersen with a community guidelines strike against her account. Fareeha is a popular streamer, known mostly as a skilled Overwatch player, with almost 50,000 followers, but her account is currently not available on the platform. Fareeha was in a match against a team of South American players on February 7, when she told her team \u201cit\u2019s alright, we can still beat them, South American players are shit. They\u2019re actually shit. I\u2019m not just saying that to be mean.\u201d Fareeha later apologized, in a lengthy TwitLonger she said \u201cI\u2019m genuinely sorry, I fucked up. [\u2026] I mean no hate towards South Americans. The angle I intended with that was more of a \u201cjust like with EU, there\u2019s less of a playerbase, less emphasis and support for esports, therefore less cutthroat competition like you\u2019d see in KR servers for instance.\u201d She explains that her team was often being placed in South American servers with high ping, and combined with trolling from South American players and fans in her chat and discord, Fareeha lashed out. As reported by Rod \u2018Slasher\u2019 Breslau, a Discord server Fareeha\u2019s Twitch chat was rife with \u201charassing, griefing and [stream] sniping\u201d. Shown in screenshots with translations attached, some of the messages read \u201cyou f***ing whore, u are ugly and we don\u2019t care about u getting high ping\u201d and \u201cshowing her boobs [\u2026] oh wait she doesn\u2019t have any.\u201d Fareeha posted the email notification of her suspension on Twitter, clearly surprised by the punishment. Not everyone was sympathetic however, with suggestions that her comments were \u2018xenophobic\u2019 and that her ban should come as no surprise. i offended an entire region by being xenophobic and deleted the evidences WHY AM I BEING SUSPENDED ON TWITCH pic.twitter.com\/1jVtgQTJ7L\u2014 elly (@quantxmphysics) February 13, 2019 Others argued that while the suspension was warranted, the length of the ban may have been \u201cexcessive\u201d. 30 day suspension however seems a bit excessive and yes, ppl have done worse and gotten no punishment or barely a couple days suspension. but @TwitchSupport @Twitch doesn’t seem to have a clear rule set on how many day suspension or ban each offense should get \u2014 Denu (@blueDenu) February 13, 2019 In any case, Fareeha should have her account reinstated within 30 days, but the community guidelines strike will remain. Often streamers who receive three strikes are banned permanently. Twitch does not comment on community guidelines violations, to respect the privacy of users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Overwatch streamer banned for hate speech after calling South American players \u201cshit\u201d Twitter \/ @FareehaAndersenTwitch streamer Fareeha Andersen has had her account banned for \u201cengaging in hateful conduct against a person or group of people\u201d, after she called a team of South American Overwatch players \u201cshit\u201d. The ban will last 30 days, and will also […]<\/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-57006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57006","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=57006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}