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Twitch removes PogChamp emote it says was “the face of… further violence”
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Thursday, 7 January, 2021 - 15:59
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One of the oldest and most popular global emotes on Twitch has been removed from the service after Twitch said "the face of the emote encourag[ed] further violence after what took place in the Capitol [Wednesday]."
That face belongs to Ryan "Gootecks" Gutierrez, a longtime Street Fighter pro and commentator. Since 2012 and until yesterday, Gutierrez had been immortalized on Twitch in the form of the "PogChamp" chat emote (short for "player of games champ"), which portrayed an exaggerated, excited face he first made in a 2010 video .
Twitch's decision to remove the emote seems focused on a series of tweets Gutierrez made Wednesday afternoon, expressing sympathy for the "#MAGAMartyr" shot during the violent Pro-Trump mob invasion of the US Capitol Wednesday . Gutierrez went on to ask if her death would leave to "civil unrest" or if she would "die in vain." In the hours before Twitch's decision, a number of people in and around the Twitch community had begun to call attention to Gutierrez's tweets and/or suggest the emote be removed or replaced .
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Invasion du Capitole : pourquoi Twitch supprime un emote ultra populaire
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Thursday, 7 January, 2021 - 11:00
Voitures, vélos, scooters... : la mobilité de demain se lit sur Vroom ! https://www.numerama.com/vroom/vroom//
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Twitch will ban “incel” and “virgin” as sexual insults
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Thursday, 17 December, 2020 - 17:11 · 1 minute
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As part of a crackdown on "sexually focused terms" on its platform, Twitch says terms like "simp," "incel," and "virgin" will soon be banned when used as insults by streamers or chatters on the popular game-streaming service.
In a livestreamed town-hall presentation yesterday, Twitch COO Sara Clemens said that the terms would be barred specifically when used in a context that "negatively refer[s] to another person's sexual activity." Twitch later clarified in a statement that "using these terms on their own wouldn't lead to an enforcement [action], but we would take action if they were used repeatedly in a harassing matter."
That largely mirrors Twitch's existing policy against hateful slurs, which are generally barred but can be used "in an empowering way or as terms of endearment when such intent is clear." Contextual enforcement of the policy on these words could be important, since many streamers self-identify as virgins or incels, for instance. The term simp (in re: "Someone who does way too much for a person they like" ), meanwhile, is often used as generic trash talk rather than with any specific sexual connotation.
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Twitch entre enfin en guerre contre le harcèlement sexuel sur sa plateforme
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Thursday, 17 December, 2020 - 11:44
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Un site sordide qui sexualisait les streameuses a été bloqué par Twitch
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Friday, 11 December, 2020 - 11:49
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Twitch bannit le guitariste de DragonForce parce qu’il jouait… du DragonForce
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Tuesday, 27 October, 2020 - 16:30
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Misogynie, racisme : des employés de Twitch US racontent des années de harcèlement et d’abus
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Wednesday, 14 October, 2020 - 13:53
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