Twitch makes u-turn on Overwatch streamer Fareeha\u2019s ban Twitch has reduced the ban placed on streamer Fareeha Andersen after she was banned for \u201cengaging in hateful conduct against a person or group of people,\u201d following comments she made about South American and European Overwatch players. Fareeha had been initially banned for 30 days with a community guidelines strike against her account for the comments she made during her February 7 stream \u2013 labeling South American players as \u2018shit.\u2019 She had apologized for her actions in a lengthy and detailed TwitLonger, but seemed surprised when she posted a screenshot of the email she received from Twitch notifying her of the ban. However, she won\u2019t have to wait as long as first thought before returning to the platform. After plenty of public outcry, the severity of the ban and its length has been toned down \u2013 showing a u-turn rarely seen from Twitch. \u201cI\u2019ll see you guys live on twitch in four days,\u201d Fareeha revealed in a simple tweet accompanied by a partying emoji. I\u2019ll see you guys live on twitch in four days :partying: \u2014 Fareeha (@FareehaAndersen) February 15, 2019 There has been plenty of support \u2013 and resistance \u2013 for Fareeha having received a ban in the first place. Esports journalist Richard Lewis tweeted his disbelief about the suspension: \u201cWhat a fucking dumb take this is. You can\u2019t say players from a region are shit at video games because it\u2019s \u2018hate speech?’\u201d What a fucking dumb take this is. You can’t say players from a region are shit at video games because it’s “”hate speech?”” That’s what you’re agreeing with. You’re also saying anyone with even a modest following must adhere to a very different set of rules to everyone else. Moron. \u2014 Richard Lewis (@RLewisReports) February 15, 2019 As documented by esports insider Rod \u2018Slasher\u2019 Breslau on Twitter, a South American Discord server took over Fareeha\u2019s Twitch chat and was rife with \u201charassing, griefing and [stream] sniping.\u201d The streamer even addressed that fact in her TwitLonger, stating that she had to defend herself as she was receiving sexist and homophobic comments. She added: \u201cI call them out on it, I get aggressive and stand up for myself because if I don\u2019t, who will? This is the aggression\/anger that people might be talking about, but was honestly only in self-defense. \u201cNone of this is intended as a means to excuse my behavior, but I do want to have my side of the story out there, y\u2019know?\u201d I’m genuinely sorry, I fucked up. Here’s how\u2026 Read: https:\/\/t.co\/uaW0u3hOTr \u2014 Fareeha (@FareehaAndersen) February 8, 2019 While Fareeha should have her account reinstated within the next few days, there is currently no word on the community guideline strike that Twitch handed out. Twitch has often operated on a \u2018three strikes and you\u2019re out\u2019 basis \u2013 streamers have been banned permanently from the platform for receiving three. As Fareeha did not state that her strike had been removed, it seems likely that it will remain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitch makes u-turn on Overwatch streamer Fareeha\u2019s ban Twitch has reduced the ban placed on streamer Fareeha Andersen after she was banned for \u201cengaging in hateful conduct against a person or group of people,\u201d following comments she made about South American and European Overwatch players. Fareeha had been initially banned for 30 days with 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-62350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62350","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=62350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}