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Twitch banned Dr Disrespect after viewing messages sent to a minor, say former employees (www.theverge.com)

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EDIT: Dr Disrespect has made a full statement regarding the ban.

Twitch abruptly permabanned one of its biggest names (Guy Beahm a.k.a. Dr Disrespect) from their platform back in 2020 without explanation. Four years later, two former Twitch employees have now spoken up, alleging that he was banned for sexting with a minor through the Twitch Whispers app and attempting to meet up with her at TwitchCon.

This came two years after a settled lawsuit between Twitch and Beahm, where neither party admitted to any wrongdoing, and his contract was paid.

Other notes and links:

The Twitter post made by former Twitch employee, Cody Conners (@evoli)
Esports journalist Rod "Slasher" Breslau (@slasher), who previously tweeted that he had been told by 'credible sources' about why Beahm was banned, but couldn't say anything due to the sensitivity of the subject, has also corroborated what Cody Conners confirmed.
The other former Twitch employee who spoke to the Verge asked to remain anonymous.
Response from Dr Disrespect (@DrDisrespect) via Twitter denying any wrongdoing.
Midnight Society (@12am) announcing on Twitter that they have cut all ties with Dr Disrespect following these allegations. This is an indie game studio that the Doc was a co-founder of.
Turtle Beach have seemingly dropped their partnership with Dr Disrespect. All of his branded merch has been removed from their website.

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[-] essteeyou@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

So what would he do that's not illegal but bad enough to get banned? What would he do that would also explain why people are saying he was messaging minors for a meet up? Why would Twitch pay out the contract?

[-] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

So what would he do that's not illegal but bad enough to get banned?

Twitch is a private platform, they could ban him for whatever reason they wanted.

Disney dropped Johnny Depp because of the Amber Heard thing, but what did he do to deserve that? Twitch dropping Dr. Disrespect was probably entirely about optics.

I don't know anything about him, I don't watch him or anything. But if he did break the law, he absolutely would have been arrested. AFAIK, sexual assault/misconduct or whatever with a minor doesn't have a stipulation that the minor can choose to not press charges, thats up to the prosecuting attorney. They almost always press charges, and they should. So if something illegal did infact take place, he would have been arrested.

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