In an effort to combat the recent flood of hate-filled material on his platform, Twitch has resorted to a new tactic in its fight against the constant troll: taking them to court.
The new lawsuit, filed on Thursday by a U.N. movie giant.S. The Northern California Regional Court is looking at the two users, “Cruzzcontrol” and “CreatineOverdose,” which the company criticizes for continuing to flood the site with “racist, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.”
Defendants are known as “haters robbers ”—maybe you have never heard of such a thing. The “hate attack” apparently involves unspecified users who send bottled armies to harass and threaten rivers, often flooding the victim’s comments section with violence, racism, or all sorts of evil. Such searches often target “advertisers from unselected groups,” according to the company’s recent criminal record.
Like many promotional platforms, Twitch has existed ongoing issues and trolls and vitriol, although the problem seems to have grown significantly more recently. In August, following the launch of a hashtag campaign that promoted the platform to eradicate hate speech, the company announced it would be releasing new features whose purpose is to solve the problem. This has included blocking thousands of people complex accounts and use the new chat filters to protect users.
However, none of these methods have been developed suspended course on new cases.
“They avoided the Twitch ban by creating new Twitch accounts, and changed what they called ‘terrorists’ to avoid being recognized or stopped by Twitch,” the suit said, citing “Cruzzcontrol,” a user in the Netherlands, and “CreatineOverdose,” which appear to be from in Vienna, Austria.
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Both trolls have already been banned by the company, but appear to have returned to the platform several times using new accounts. Because the accounts were created anonymously, the real hate the robbers are unknown, adding to the problem of chasing them on the platform. What is known about them is that they have been trying to confuse users with various forms of harassment.
“CruzzControl manages approximately 3,000 bot accounts related to cyber threats. CruzzControl-generated and linked bottles were linked to a variety of hate incidents, including those involving black and LGBTQIA + racist, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. , homosexuals, and other forms of torture, ”he said.
Creatine, meanwhile, is facing similar charges and is said to have survived a permanent ban through accounts and accounts that are changing, including “but not limited to CreatineOverdose, CreatineBanEvades, CreatineReturns, and CreatineReport,” the suit said.
It is unclear how effective these cases would be, considering that Twitch does not even know who they are Cruzz and Nature but. However, as an indication to users that this seems like a hassle, the company is stating its commitment to protect them on the website.
“We hope that these complaints will also expose the perpetrators of the threats and the weapons they are using, prevent them from adopting these practices, and help address the serious threats that are taking place in our area,” he said. the company sells Wired in words.