Hasan Piker has announced to his three million followers that he has been banned from the Twitch app once more.
The left-wing streamer used his platform on the app to discuss the recent killing of ICU nurse Alex Pretti at the hands of ICE. The Minneapolis citizen was recording ICE agents in the street, which resulted in a confrontation where he was shot dead by the agents. Proponents of both the First and Second Amendments have condemned the killing as a violation of his constitutional rights.
Hasan Piker took aim at those defending the use of watch lists to track US protestors
During the Twitch stream, Hasan speculated that ICE had been tracking Alex Pretti prior to his killing. “Two senior national security officials tell me there are more than a dozen secret watch lists that Homeland Security is using to track protestors, both anti-ICE and pro-Palestinians,” Hasan said.
It was there that Hasan used the two-word phrase that resulted in his ban. The streamer referred to the alleged trackers as “zionist pigs” and “Israel-first monsters.” He was then informed that he had violated the platform’s community guidelines.
Hasan took to X (formerly Twitter) to express his outrage about the ban. In the post, he took aim at the app’s guidelines. “You CAN say nazi pig on Twitch, you CAN say Democrat pig, you can say Republican pig, you can say Islamist pig. You CANNOT say zionist pig,” He said.
Hasan called out the American Defamation League (ADL) in the next part of his tweet. He called the organization “an arm of Israel’s suppression in the west that works w/ law enforcement & does espionage.” He added that it was the ADL that made his two-word phrase “a bannable offense.”
It’s not the first time Hasan has been banned from Twitch. In May last year, he was banned after showing an alleged manifesto of Elias Rodriguez, the perpetrator of the Capital Jewish Museum shooting. Twitch called the action “improper handling of terrorist propaganda”. In 2021, he was banned for using the word “cracker,” in reference to white people, on stream.
Hasan has not stated when he expects to return to Twitch. However, his previous bans have been for approximately 24 hours.
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