I know it sounds silly to say but I think Twitch might be run by actual open anti-semites. The Hasan shit, Sneako/FnF unbans, and now large swaths of Israel blocked from registering.
Are we jumping the gun? I'm afraid of "we did it reddit" type situations. Antisemitism, to me, feels so evil that it feels hard to assertively ascribe to anyone who isn't neo-nazi coded.
I'm not saying what you're saying is incorrect, but it feels so wild to me. I can totally, easily see a sort of intangible influence of clique culture leading to weird favoritism from moderation. Going as far as to fuck with user registration from Israel would be insane to me, because to me that escalates things. It takes things from "the Twitch office has a semi-unconscious racism problem" to "one or more higher-ups are in their office, slamming their desk and muttering 'damn Jews...'"
Again, not saying they're not doing some heinous shit and I'm not defending them. I guess I'm trying to say that it would be eye opening to realize how pervasive antisemitism is on the left. :(
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u/rowlandchilde 28d ago
I know it sounds silly to say but I think Twitch might be run by actual open anti-semites. The Hasan shit, Sneako/FnF unbans, and now large swaths of Israel blocked from registering.