Two more Twitch streamers banned after Hasan over \u201ccracker\u201d slur controversy TwitchMore Twitch streamers are facing suspensions from the platform, after breaching Twitch\u2019s community guidelines regarding hateful slurs, after Hasan was banned for using the term \u2018cracker\u2019. Debate around the term was sparked after two of Hasan Piker\u2019s Twitch mods were suspended for using the word \u2013 suspensions which Hasan then argued against. On December 13, Hasan himself was banned from Twitch, his third in total, for an as-yet-undisclosed length of time. The word has now become part of a wider discussion on Twitch, and it appears that as a result, two more broadcasters have been hit with suspensions, one of them indefinite. More streamers banned On December 14, streamers VaushVidya and Fawn, with 82k and 32k followers respectively, were banned from Twitch. Vaush said that the ban was \u201cindefinite, no less. Proud of Twitch for finally taking a stand against anti-white racism.\u201d Indefinite, no less. Proud of Twitch for finally taking a stand against anti-white racism \u2014 Vaush \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8 (@VaushV) December 14, 2021 Fawn did not confirm the exact reason for the ban, but said she believes it is \u201cfor the same thing.\u201d Twitch\u2019s community guidelines regarding slurs state that the following is prohibited: \u201cUsing hateful slurs, either untargeted or directed towards another individual. We allow certain words or terms, which might otherwise violate our policy, to be used in an empowering way or as terms of endearment when such intent is clear.\u201d Examples given include \u201centering a chat and spamming a slur\u201d, \u201ctargeting an individual with a slur based on a protected characteristic\u201d and \u201ccalling another player a slur in anger while streaming.\u201d In 2020, in response to a request for more clarity from streamers, Twitch said \u201cregardless of spelling or pronunciation, slurs used for the purpose of hate or harassment are not allowed.\u201d Hasan\u2019s assertion that there is \u201cno way\u201d the term is a slur sparked a wider debate among the Twitch community. Dexerto has reached out to Twitch regarding the specific policies about the word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Two more Twitch streamers banned after Hasan over \u201ccracker\u201d slur controversy TwitchMore Twitch streamers are facing suspensions from the platform, after breaching Twitch\u2019s community guidelines regarding hateful slurs, after Hasan was banned for using the term \u2018cracker\u2019. Debate around the term was sparked after two of Hasan Piker\u2019s Twitch mods were suspended for using the […]<\/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-62974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62974","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=62974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}