Big Streamers have 0 consequence...
Hey so, I have been reporting very high profile streamers for a long time when they actively promote or engage in transphobic, homophobic or fascist ideologies. These DO fall under the twitch community guidelines.
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Direct quotes copied and pasted, and yet you allow hate crimes, organised hate raids, you ban OUR content and ME when i got spam false reported from these streamers chats but they get off with a huge paycheck and no consequences. For example the recent issues with xQc and QT etc... Nothing but pure discrimination and enabling hate crimes and in xQcs case, advocating for hate against other streamers. What action was taken? nothing. Absolutely nothing. Kick is worse for it so I cant even suggest moving to that site BUT i can bring in a costly legal battle. We all know twitch is losing money, especially after twitchcon. You make your living from creators then treat us like we are nothing, thats also why you shelter your money farm streamer like the ones I have reported and mentioned. You put money over your own guidelines. I have been reported and banned for 2 weeks, because i was targeted by these huge streamers, and i never even got an option to appeal or explain the number of reports. These big streamers NEED to be held accountable for how they influence such a huge amount of people with misinformation, hateful ideology and advocate for hating minorities and literally get paid to do so by twitch.
I guess what im asking for is more moderation around hate crimes and hate speech. Dont get it confused with free speech. Asmon is another streamer who has anything like fascist, nazi, far right etc etc all banned claiming ''its because he doesnt want to talk about politics'' but then i typed out ''looney lefty'' and that went through totally fine, another example of a streamer manipulating his chat and not allowing free speech, but will happily allow hate speech and slurs in the chat. I was in there for 10 mins, and witnessed atleast 10 slurs. No mods took action. Twitch didnt take action. The double standard of punishing small creators, for example with me, I have not had a CENT of ad revenue for the past like 2-3 months..... Just all of a sudden its stopped, but now im being recommended these fascist streamers who are making more money I will ever see? No. Thats ethically and morally totally wrong. Treat everyone equally, no special treatment for your money farms, because ANYONE can blow up. Also to help twitch make more money, just allow nudity in a selected category and age verify every user in that category, do not store personal data, to avoid awful data breaches but just do a simple cross check with a debit/credit card or something. That would take your revenue to the next level so you can stop with this blatant favouritism.
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There are multiple of these comments exactly like this, or similar. How do they think people are not gonna take this seriously one day?