4mo ago

Twitch Bans Hasan Piker After Hypothetical About Republicans Killing Senator Rick Scott

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Twitch Bans Hasan Piker After Hypothetical About Republicans Killing Senator Rick Scott [Update]

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4mo ago

Twitch Bans Hasan Piker After Hypothetical About Republicans Killing Senator Rick Scott

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4mo ago

Twitch Bans Hasan Piker After Hypothetical About Republicans Killing Senator Rick Scott

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“Big shout out to the right wing free speech lovers who took time out of their day screaming about dei & immigrants, to cry abt this!” he posted on X after his stream was taken down.
What are you doing on X, bro? Join the fediverse and stop using Musk's platform FFS.
Anti Commercial-AI license
- Anti Commercial-AI License
  Not trying to be rude. Honest question, what does this achieve? Is it something with a verifiable effect, or is it hopeful that it will be in the future? I see it around, and I'm curious.
  
  I should probably write a blog post about it. Basically it's there to possibly get commercial LLMs in trouble for scraping licensed stuff. LLMs have been tricked into revealing their training data and gotten in trouble for that. There are also ongoing lawsuits due to those revelations. Maybe the most notable is the one against ~~Github's~~ Microsoft's CoPilot for spitting out licensed (GPL and also copyrighted from private repos) code.
  Whether the lawsuits will be successful or not is yet to be determined (Japan already considers nearly everything fair game for training AIs and machine learning). Whether they will have an impact if they are successful is also unknown. It just costs me a key-stroke (and the occasional response to a friendly question like yours), so I do it 🤷 Once all my hope is lost, I might stop.
  Anti Commercial-AI license
  
  It's about as useful (legally) as a disclaimer in an email signature.
  
  The funny thing is that I can see AI comments including this sort of thing kind of like how generative AI trained on stock photos would add watermarks.
- He's a clout goblin, doesn't give a shit about workers and just wants visibility
Republicans have no issue suggesting some people oughta be killed though, including the current idiot-in-chief.
Hypocritical projecting evil pieces of shit, including every single fucktwat that votes for them.
Lmao the cut off twitch chat message
She cut on my med till i care
This is the leftist talk show streamer's fifth ban
Doesn't a ban imply a ban, i.e. permanent removal? This seems like a suspension.
- Twitch does this quite often, I don't know why they get called bans either. Nonpermanent "bans" are a thing, but in the case of a widely used service like Twitch I think it'd make more sense to call them suspensions like you said.
  
  Suspensions doesn't really work well in this context, they're temp bans - an account being suspended means frozen
  That's not what happens here. It's effectively temporarily removed - subscriptions aren't paused, they're refunded
  Suspended also might come with implications - maybe something is under review, maybe you haven't used it for too long and have to reactivate it, maybe you are limited to things you can do with it. It implies action on your part
  Ban means go away. Temp ban means go away for a while. And they want that message - they don't want people to appeal or their followers on twitch to mass email them
  I think the real problem is bans get lifted, we hear it happen fairly often. So we have perma bans, which means "seriously, you're banned forever, we're destructively altered your account"
  So ban is now gaining a conditional implication
  
  Lemmy also has this!
  
  Nonpermanent “bans” are a thing
  I mean from a linguistic perspective. A ban is permanent (or at least long-term in the since that it might take a very long time for a ban to be removed).
- Yeah, I was really confused when the game Brighter Shores first entered early access with its initial aggressive chat moderation system (because it's out of the UK law and the liability on their part is insane I guess) and a bunch of people were like "seriously? I got banned for this."
  Nobody was getting banned, they were getting temporarily muted and calling it a ban.
  I feel like "ban" is a term that used to have a really clear meaning: you can no longer use this service. Now, it seems like that word is increasingly being abused to just mean: the service stopped me from doing something I wanted to do.
  
  It means you are not allowed any more. We can use temp ban or timeout or mute etc. For the same. If we want to specify forever, we can say perma ban.
- I imagine these online platforms have various gradations of bans and suspensions, but I haven't modded anything since 2007 so I wouldn't know
I'm a has an hater but this ban was bullshit. Right wingers are so quick to ban anything they don't like.
I guess that's the line? When he was promoting terrorism and dehumanizing Jews he was Twitch's golden boy.
Rule 8? This has nothing to do with PC gaming. Glad he got banned though, fuck 'em.

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