


Best known as a popular portal for video gamers to stream themselves, Twitch also hosts live video on a wide range of other topics. “By the way, you have many cases like that, many, many, many,” Trump said, according to a Twitch transcript of the speech.Ī Twitch spokeswoman said the suspension would be temporary but declined to elaborate. The second violation, cited by Twitch, referred to a portion of Trump’s recent rally in Tulsa, Okla., where he outlined a scenario of “a very tough hombre” breaking into a sleeping woman’s house at night. Trump has been much criticized for his infamous reference to Mexicans when he kicked off his presidential campaign five years ago. “In line with our policies, President Trump’s channel has been issued a temporary suspension from Twitch for comments made on stream, and the offending content has been removed.” “Hateful conduct is not allowed on Twitch,” the company said in an emailed statement. Reddit, a community-based social website, said it banned 2,000 discussion pages, including r/The_Donald for being one of the two biggest violators of rules against promoting hate based on identity. Twitch, Inc.’s livestreaming site, temporarily banned Trump’s account for reposting a 2016 speech in which he characterized Mexicans as rapists and a more recent speech in which he conjured up the image of an evildoer breaking into the house of a sleeping woman. have banned content linked to President Trump for violating their rules against encouraging hate.
