Why was HasanAbi banned from Twitch?
Twitch star "HasanAbi" Piker was banned from the streaming platform while covering the Georgia Runoff Senate race on December 6, 2022.
According to the political commentator, the ban was due to a copyright strike on behalf of Censored.tv, an online video-sharing website that advocates for free-speech and anti-censorship laws.
The streamer took to Twitter to lambast the organization for striking his content. He also shared screenshots of the email he received from Twitch, which explained why he got a two-day ban.
HasanAbi is hugely popular on Twitch and beyond, as evidenced by the recent Streamy Award he won for the news category. As a Just Chatting streamer who primarily talks about social and political issues, his content necessarily deals with many controversial things.
On December 6, 2022, HasanAbi reacted to Ye's (formerly Kanye West) recent interview with Gavin McInnes and Nick Fuentes that was featured on Censored.tv. The content creator criticized McInnes, the founder of Proud Boys, a neo-fascist white nationalist organization known for its anti-Semitic and authoritarian views. However, he soon got slapped with a ban.
It was revealed that the CTO of Censored.tv contacted Twitch to get the content DMCA'd. Here is a relevant quote from a screenshot of the email the Turkish-American personality received from the purple platform:
Twitch added that they had to copyright strike the streamer due to infringement of digital property rights, stating that he was banned for 48 hours. The email continued:
HasanAbi took to Twitter to call out the executives of the self-styled defenders of free speech, Censored.tv, for striking his content. He branded them "Nazis" for hosting the founder of Proud Boys and called them hypocrites:
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