GuardianX
Perpetually Pessimistic
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That is what a large portion of people don't get, combined with the fact that all races listen to rap and hear people throwing out the word day and night, the word means nothing to people until it "means something".
A portion of the black community want it to retain it's power (through vilifying people that use any variation of it), the rest couldn't give less of a fuck about the word becoming a irrelevant word where, when used, it has no punch.
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in RE the twitch part of it:
The most laughable part of the recent policy changes holding streamers accountable for people in their chat, it completely breaks the personal responsibility of the individual. In that regard though Twitch is in a rock and hard place. They can't ban people in any meaningful manner because it would likely break the law and they shouldn't ban their creators because they are their revenue generators.
There are a lot of assumptions that twitch is making lately with their new TOS:
1. Viewers care enough about their streamer to follow them to another location -- Ban Streamer, all the problem children go away
This is pretty damn stupid, it is observable that when they ban a streamer from twitch and that person hops to another service they pull in a minuscule amount of their original viewers. The intended target isn't being punished (The racist viewer) because they will switch from watching the banned person to another person on twitch, their "toxicity" will remain on the platform and will spread to more people.
2. People care enough about their screen-name that they will attempt all things to not get banned. -- Ban the individual and they will never be back
When the only thing that people have tied to their screen-name is a month to month subscription to a particular streamer, there is nearly 0 incentive for a person to not behave like they are 100% anonymous. If they are banned they will make another account with a fake email and troll some more. If they are super trolly, they will make a ton of accounts and troll a ton and there is almost 0 recourse for them.UNLESS, can someone tell me about this hypothetical:
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By forcing the bar on acceptable behaviour lower and lower, they are going to get rid of community builders that are good people but also a bit abrasive. They will also start killing off their content creators because of their chat's behaviour.
Take ninjas comment, that COULD BE grounds for a perma suspension. I don't know, off hand, of anyone getting a perma for singing rap songs with the word "Wakandan" in it though. I severly doubt that if there is a precident for a perma for singing that Ninja will be in the running for a Perma based simply on his channel size. Which just furthers all of this being a huge joke because it brings up a concept that racism is okay...IF you make a LOT of money for people.
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