Twitch is suing two users allegedly behind streamer hate raids TwitchTwitch has launched legal action against two users wo the streaming platform claims are at least partly responsible for the infamous \u201chate raids\u201d plaguing the site. From August 2021 onwards, Twitch has been subjected to many \u2018hate raids,\u2019 where bots spam hateful and racist terms in a streamer\u2019s chat. While the company claimed to have banned many accounts at the end of that month, they have now filed a lawsuit against two users they believe have been posting some of the hate messages. According to a report in WIRED, Twitch is suing the pair for \u201ctargeting Black and LGBTQIA+ streamers with racist, homophobic, sexist and other harassing content in violation of its terms of service.\u201d A spokesperson for Twitch said: \u201cWe hope this Complaint will shed light on the identity of the individuals behind these attacks and the tools that they exploit, dissuade them from taking similar behaviors to other services, and help put an end to these vile attacks against members of our community.\u201d The two users have been identified by their usernames as \u2018Cruzzcontrol\u2019 and \u2018CreatineOverdose\u2019 in court documents, which were filed on September 9. The Amazon-owned site believes they are based in the Netherlands and Austria, respectively. Despite the streaming platform claiming they took \u201cswift action\u201d by banning both of the users\u2019 main accounts, the suit states that they \u201cevaded Twitch\u2019s bans by creating new, alternate Twitch accounts, and continually altering their self-described \u2018hate raid code\u2019 to avoid detection and suspension by Twitch.\u201d Twitch also suggests in the lawsuit that the defendants may be part of a \u201chate raiding community,\u201d which coordinates the raids over Discord and Steam. The lawsuit goes on to claim that Cruzzcontrol and CreatineOverdose still operate multiple accounts on Twitch under different names, as well as thousands of bot accounts to spam streamers. Furthermore, according to Twitch, both users have claimed that they can \u201cgenerate thousands of bots in minutes for this purpose.\u201d Twitch alleges that Cruzzcontrol is responsible for about 3,000 bots associated with the recent hate raids. While it hasn\u2019t been revealed what, if anything, the company is seeking in damages, WIRED report that the new suit could help uncover the identities of the two anonymous users that Twitch claim are behind the raids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitch is suing two users allegedly behind streamer hate raids TwitchTwitch has launched legal action against two users wo the streaming platform claims are at least partly responsible for the infamous \u201chate raids\u201d plaguing the site. From August 2021 onwards, Twitch has been subjected to many \u2018hate raids,\u2019 where bots spam hateful and racist terms […]<\/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-62331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62331","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=62331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}