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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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[–] essteeyou@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

I hadn't seen the post on Twitter, I don't use Twitter. Looks like he posted that about an hour before I commented, so it's not like you'd expect everyone in the world to have seen it.

Having read it I've obviously got new information and can update my opinion accordingly.

To be clear, though, he hadn't made this statement until today, and so everyone until now was acting based on hearsay, not proof.

Were there twitch whisper messages with an individual minor back in 2017? The answer is yes. Were there real intentions behind these messages, the answer is absolutely not. These were casual, mutual conversations that sometimes leaned too much in the direction of being inappropriate, but nothing more.

Disgusting.