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Twitch declares that “Zionist” is a slur, will issue bans for criticizing “individuals” based on their “religious beliefs or background” (genocide, settler colonialism)

https://archive.ph/qwX4r

Implications for leftist streamers like HasanAbi

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potentially establishing precedents for mass removal and censorship of anti-genocide organizing and education on other major social media platforms

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[-] Chronicon@hexbear.net 30 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

it all depends on the implementation tbh. At best this'll be tone policing of antizionists that would never be applied to islamophobes, but at worst it could be as you say, justification for mass censorship of anti-zionist content

I don't think it'll just stop at censoring people using "zionist pigs" as an insult (which isn't antisemitic to begin with ofc), it'll probably go further because the people that cajoled twitch into making this change in the first place will keep pushing those same buttons (threatening advertisers with smear campaigns) again and again, but there must be limits to how far they can be pushed

[-] urmums401k@hexbear.net 6 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Fuck twitch; get your friends off twitch

And they're owned by amazon, so steal from a whole foods.

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