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'''Twitch''' is an American live streaming service intended to focus on gaming content, though now includes a wide breadth of {{tooltip|In real life|IRL}} content, as well as left-wing political punditry. The platform's origins are rooted in {{wiki|Justin.tv||,}} one of the first platforms [[Destiny]] streamed on until it's eventual transition to Twitch.tv as the service and Justin.tv as the parent company.

Destiny no longer streamed from Twitch after an indefinite suspension that ran from 2022 to 2026. This suspension prohibited him from interfacing with other Twitch streamers due to Twitch's guidelines on suspensions.<ref>Twitch Community Guidelines: Suspension Evasion. (2024) [https://safety.twitch.tv/s/article/Community-Guidelines?language=en_US&%3Futm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fhelp.twitch.tv%2F#30SuspensionEvasion:~:text=but%20you%20may%20not%20feature%20them%20on%20your%20stream%20as%20a%20guest%20(for%20example%2C%20streaming%20in%20the%20same%20room%20or%20using%20collaboration%20software%20to%20feature%20a%20suspended%20user%20as%20a%20guest%2C%20even%20in%20an%20ensemble). safety.twitch.tv]. Retrieved Octover 24, 2024.</ref>

On May 21, 2026, Destiny was unbanned then re-banned from Twitch within an hour.<ref>{{cite
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== History of punitive actions taken against Destiny ==
=== 2017 Ban ===
On February 14, 2017, Destiny was banned for three days following his usage of the "n-word" on stream. Destiny was reviewing a {{ytwatch|WGpcsYr-mOU|video released}} by [[Ben Shapiro]] and Ben made the argument that he "doesn't need a 7-year degree in sociology to know bullshit when [he] hear[s] it." Destiny then pointed out that {{wiki|Argument from incredulity|this logic}} could be easily applied to "a million other things," and extrapolated it to another example that a hypothetical individual could then argue they "wouldn't need to go and study biology to know that n*****s are fucking stupid" with the logic that Ben Shapiro provided.<ref>Destiny says the N-word to illustrate why Ben Shapiro's argument is stupid. (2017) {{nsfw|Contains multiple uses of the N-word|[https://streamable.com/n6leo streamable.com]}}. Retrieved October 24, 2024.</ref><ref>Destiny 3-Day Ban After Saying the N-Word on Stream. (2017). [https://www.reddit.com/r/LivestreamFail/comments/5u1k5s/destiny_3day_ban_after_saying_the_nword_on_stream/ reddit.com] Retrieved October 24, 2024.</ref>

=== De-partnering in 2020 ===
On September 11, 2020, Destiny was de-partnered over the infamous [https://streamable.com/c3ra2r "mowing down dipshit protesters"] clip regarding the then-ongoing {{wiki|George Floyd protests}} turning violent at night. At the time, Destiny speculated it was unlikely that he would ever be re-partnered, as the de-partnering was from the legal team of Twitch, rather than the moderation team.<ref>Destiny's chat log over "inciting violence." (2020) [https://imgur.com/zrQEV2I imgur.com."] Retrieved October 24, 2024.</ref>

=== Indefinite suspension in 2022 ===
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|body=So this is the clip that I was perma banned from Twitch for lol

I should’ve been talking about Jews instead I guess smh

Still hosted on Twitch servers: [https://clips-media-assets2.twitch.tv/AT-cm%7CCz7C_q-gnm9Z0cJDUNXttQ.mp4 link]
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|source=https://x.com/TheOmniLiberal/status/1850637749147037976
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|date=Oct 27, 2024
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On March 23, 2022, Destiny was banned indefinitely from Twitch for violating Twitch's hateful conduct policy.<ref>Destiny's Twitter. (2022). [https://twitter.com/TheOmniLiberal/status/1668366993035075589 twitter.com]. Retrieved October 24, 2024.</ref> While no official reason has been given yet, it is speculated (and, according to Destiny, was confirmed by several former Twitch employees) that Destiny's use of the word "subhuman" when referring to the terminally online, Trans-Twitter community's behavior is responsible for the ban.

However, on October 27, 2024, Destiny tweeted saying that a tweet of a clip from his stream in which he said that "the risk of me getting my life destroyed because of these inbred fucking disgusting losers is totally not worth it..."


== Twitch.tv's pausing of Account Creations in Israel and Palestine ==
{{disambiguation|Main Article: [[Twitch.tv's Pausing of Account Creations in Israel]]}}
On October 19, 2024 an r/destiny subreddit user submitted a thread claiming that account creations on Twitch were disabled in the region of {{wiki|Israel||.}}<ref> [https://www.reddit.com/r/Destiny/comments/1g803yo/twitch_blocking_new_users_from_israel_confirmed/ reddit.com] r/destiny. "Twitch blocking new users from Israel confirmed." Retrieved Oct 21, 2024.</ref> It was later discovered and confirmed by leaked code that {{wiki|Palestinian}} users were additionally prohibited from creating new accounts, {{tooltip|This is due to the fact Palestine partially shares IP networks with Jordan and Egypt for the West Bank and Gaza Strip, respectively, meaning users on those networks would likely be unaffected by the ban on Palestinian and Israeli IP addresses. |although likely to a lesser degree.}} <ref name="Twitch code">[[:Media: TwitchBDSTweet1.jpg|Twitch code revealing Palestine and Israel are geo-blocked from account creation with e-mails.]] (2024). X.com.</ref> Further investigation revealed that users as far back as May of 2024 users on Twitter were aware of the issue, and attempted a public hashtag campaign ([https://x.com/hashtag/BatluathTwitch?src=hashtag_click #BatluathTwitch]) which was never responded to by Twitch.

== Additional Cover-Up Efforts ==
In 2024, Twitch developed a new feature allowing streamers to block individual accounts not only from chatting on a stream, but also from viewing a stream, to increase the effort required of viewers who might monitor Twitch-blessed streamers for rule violations.<ref>https://rustlesearch.dev/surrounds?channel=Destinygg&date=2024-11-17T16%3A58%3A59.927Z&username=dougiechan</ref>

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