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Twitch banned Dr Disrespect after viewing messages sent to a minor, say former employees (www.theverge.com)
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EDIT: Dr Disrespect has made a full statement regarding the ban.

Twitch abruptly permabanned one of its biggest names (Guy Beahm a.k.a. Dr Disrespect) from their platform back in 2020 without explanation. Four years later, two former Twitch employees have now spoken up, alleging that he was banned for sexting with a minor through the Twitch Whispers app and attempting to meet up with her at TwitchCon.

This came two years after a settled lawsuit between Twitch and Beahm, where neither party admitted to any wrongdoing, and his contract was paid.

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[–] corus_kt@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Twitch's behaviour is mildly disturbing for this case, in that they were monitoring Beahm's private DMs, and then tried to hide it with a settlement when wrongdoing was found (to hide that they were monitoring prominent users of the whisper system?)

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 7 points 4 months ago

Or... the whispers were reported by the other party, or detected by an automatic abuse detection system, they paid off his contract because he was suing them for it and they weren't confident it was a good investment to fight