Twitch threatens legal action after hate raids against LGBTQIA+ streamers spike Unsplash: Caspar RubinTwitch has addressed community concern around a sharp rise in hate raids targeting LGBTQIA+ streamers on the platform. The company states they\u2019ve banned a number of accounts involved, promising potential legal action, and advising streamers how to protect themselves. Hate raids have become a hot topic in the Twitch community over the last 12 months. While big stars like Pokimane have thrusted it into the spotlight, it\u2019s a regular occurrence for smaller streamers who lack tools to stop it. While Twitch has implemented some changes, LGBTQIA+ streamers \u2014 especially women \u2014 have been harassed by hate raids, spiking in March. The raids have been tracked back to another streaming platform called CozyTV. The platform is stepping in though, promising to ban those harassing streamers in a March 11 statement. \u201cOver the past 24 hours, bad actors have been coordinating off-Twitch to target women and LGBTQ+ members of our community with spammy and hateful chat messages,\u201d the company said. Over the past 24 hours, bad actors have been coordinating off-Twitch to target women and LGBTQ+ members of our community with spammy and hateful chat messages. Hate has no place on Twitch, and we\u2019ve identified and suspended the Twitch accounts of the individuals participating. \u2014 Twitch Support (@TwitchSupport) March 11, 2022 \u201cHate has no place on Twitch, and we\u2019ve identified and suspended the Twitch accounts of the individuals participating. Our Safety team is actively reviewing reports and suspending users in violation of our [terms of service].\u201d Twitch isn\u2019t just stopping at bans though. The platform is looking into legal options \u2014 like they have done in the past \u2014 to shut down targeted harassment. \u201cOur legal team is also involved and actively investigating. We\u2019ve taken legal action against those who\u2019ve harassed our community in the past and continue to take these activities seriously.\u201d CozyTV CEO Nick Fuentes has laughed off the hate raid claims: \u201cIt\u2019s just delicious to me to see the seething, and the panic-stricken [LGBTQIA+ streamer] when there\u2019s no moderator, no admin, no report button, no support ticket they can file.\u201d While Twitch has promised to suspend those participating in hate raids, the platform has not outlined any potential changes to prevent them in the future. However, they have told streamers to increase their AutoMod strength, turn Followers-Only chat on, enable email and phone verification, and to only allow Raids from friends to stem the harassment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitch threatens legal action after hate raids against LGBTQIA+ streamers spike Unsplash: Caspar RubinTwitch has addressed community concern around a sharp rise in hate raids targeting LGBTQIA+ streamers on the platform. The company states they\u2019ve banned a number of accounts involved, promising potential legal action, and advising streamers how to protect themselves. Hate raids have […]<\/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-62857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62857","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=62857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}