Twitch Bans and Unbans Asmongold
It's been a very eventful month for Twitch streamer Asmongold. His live coverage of the Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard trial led to his channel becoming the most-watched on Twitch. Just weeks later and now Asmongold has been banned by Twitch in what's certain to be viewed as a completely surprising and controversial decision. Less than 24 hours after his suspension, however, Asmongold is back streaming on Twitch after the platform reversed his ban. The circumstances of Asmongold's situation are strange, to say the least.
To start, Asmongold was banned on Friday, but it wasn't Asmongold's main Twitch account that was suspended. It was his second account, zackrawrr, that caught the ban. Asmongold would later confirm that the ban wasn't permanent or anything severe. It was a 24-hour suspension caused by what Asmongold claims was a racial slur spoken in Diablo Immortal's chat. Despite the ban being on Asmongold's secondary account, he's also suspended on his main account as continuing to stream would be considered evading a ban.
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Twitch has taken an aggressive stance regarding a streamer's responsibility for all content shown on their stream. That includes language used by friends or teammates through Discord or in-game audio systems, as well as in-game text chats. Twitch does, of course, take into consideration the context of any TOS issue when deciding the severity of punishment. While it's true that streamers often have no real control over these communication methods, they still have to do everything in their power to prevent Twitch TOS violations.
Following the suspension, Asmongold released a lengthy video on YouTube condemning what had happened on his
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