Destiny confirms Twitch ban is permanent after breaking hateful conduct rules Twitch: DestinyVeteran Twitch streamer Steven \u2018Destiny\u2019 Bonnel has been banned from the platform \u2014 for good \u2014 revealing that he was suspended permanently due to an apparent violation of Twitch\u2019s community guidelines on hateful conduct. Destiny has faced multiple bans from the platform in the past, and lost his partnership in 2020 for what Twitch said was \u201cencouraging violence.\u201d His content is often politically focused, hosting debates and conversations with people from across the political spectrum, which can at times lead to tensions coming to the fore. On March 23, his account was made unavailable and he was suspended once again. As he is not partnered on Twitch though, he was able to continue broadcasting on another platform, moving to YouTube. It looks like his platform of 650,000 followers will be shifting to the Google-owned site permanently, with the star confirming his suspension is permanent. Why was Destiny banned from Twitch? On his YouTube stream, Destiny confirmed the cause of the ban came under Twitch\u2019s rules for hateful conduct, but that he wasn\u2019t told specifically what he did or said to prompt the punishment. This is standard for Twitch bans, where streamers will be told what rule they broke, but not how exactly they broke it. \u201cTwitch never tells me why I get banned,\u201d Destiny explained. \u201cThey said that a violation occurred on stream, and then the three possible [reasons] they gave were: posting a combination of words and emotes in chat to promote denigration based on race, praising or supporting a hate crime. \u201cAnd then the third one, this would blow my mind if it\u2019s the third one, \u2018advocating for the exclusion of a group of people based on their disability.\u2019 There\u2019s no way right?\u201d The related segment starts at 5:47:10. When a viewer suggested it could have been a \u2018hate raid\u2019, Destiny responded, \u201cI don\u2019t believe my community does hate raids. I don\u2019t believe that.\u201d The streamer later theorized that it might be \u201cbecause of my claims that transwomen shouldn\u2019t compete with ciswomen in women\u2019s athletics.\u201d Twitch\u2019s guidelines prohibit \u201ccalls for subjugation, segregation or exclusion\u2026based on a protected characteristic.\u201d The only way Destiny can get his Twitch account back is if he successful in an appeal \u2014 however his first one failed. If he tries again and misses the mark, his 11-year career on the platform is done for good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Destiny confirms Twitch ban is permanent after breaking hateful conduct rules Twitch: DestinyVeteran Twitch streamer Steven \u2018Destiny\u2019 Bonnel has been banned from the platform \u2014 for good \u2014 revealing that he was suspended permanently due to an apparent violation of Twitch\u2019s community guidelines on hateful conduct. Destiny has faced multiple bans from the platform in […]<\/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-62581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62581","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=62581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}