Twitch updated its Hateful Conduct policy.
"Starting today, using the term “Zionist” to attack or demean another individual or group of people on the basis of their background or religious belief is against our rules."
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"Starting today, using the term “Zionist” to attack or demean another individual or group of people on the basis of their background or religious belief is against our rules."
#StreamerNews #TOSgg
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Also Twitch: If you say killing Palestinians is wrong, we will hunt you down for sport.
Attempting to control the flow of information by controlling the language you can use to describe it.
All of this death and deprivation is driven by a violent ideology and we’re being told not to discuss it.
Except the Zionists who are proud to call themselves Zionists …
Like the ones that want ‘Living Space’ in the Middle East.
Or to engage in ethnic cleansing in Palestine and soon Lebanon.
🙄🙄🙄
“Speech and conduct that would violate the NDAH if targeting Jewish or Israeli people can also violate the NDAH if directed toward Zionists.”
https://theintercept.com/2024/08/27/zionist-nyu-gaza-campus-protests/
Or is criticizing Zionism de facto banned too?
We go again! https://twitch.uservoice.com/forums/933812-safety/suggestions/49099244-stop-allowing-groups-like-the-adl-and-destiny-from
Anti-Zionism =/= Anti Semitism.
What's next? Calling people cis becoming illegal? Knocking on wood.
Obviously it will likely be used as a loophole but accusing people of being Zionists in a negative and black-and-white way just because they’re Jewish or from Israel.. IS objectively wrong?
We agree on that part, right? Just not how it can be abused?
Which sucks.
Considering that David Duke coined that phrase, it actively gives me chills as someone who's Jewish himself.
I hear a lot more vitriol about AIPAC than CUFI, for instance, even though CUFI's much bigger and predominantly Christian.
Then again, nuance is a dying art.
Not only is it stupid to censor criticism of Zionism, this will make actual antisemitism harder to deal with.