Recent money laundering and fraud incidents; Twitch, which is on the agenda of our country with millions of profiteering as a result of these events, is among the most popular broadcasting platforms in the world. Even though such events happen, the giant platform serves millions of people every day, allowing content producers to broadcast in different fields.
As those who follow know, content producers and regular users broadcasting on Twitch; It takes its place on the platform with different user names. It is thought that these names can sometimes lead to bad results. Now, a step has come from the giant platform in this regard. According to the statements made, Twitch took a new measure for user names on the platform.
Names connoting ‘hate speech, sexuality, drugs’ will be blocked
Updating its security policy according to incoming news, Twitch is now on the platform with heavy speech, sexuality, hate. banned usernames that suggest things like ‘drugs, genitals’. Giant platform; He stated that this decision was made in order to make people comfortable with more secure and family-friendly usernames. It was also added to the explanations that the names connoting products such as ‘alcohol, marijuana (also known as marijuana) and tobacco’ would not be included in the scope of ‘heavy drugs’ and would not be banned.
Amazon-owned platform said in a statement regarding the decision, “While we have removed many offensive usernames reported under our current policy, this style is stronger to develop a more diverse, safe and inclusive global community on Twitch. “We think it is necessary to take precautions,” he said.
According to the news, Twitch will give all users until March 1, 2022 before these rules go into effect; He added that after this date, accounts that do not comply with the rules will be suspended. As a result, it was stated that people on the platform will have time to think of a new username and refine their ‘branding’ efforts without any problems in their experience. Finally, it was stated in the statements that the names that evoke ‘sex and heavy drugs’ and whether they comply with the policy will be given a chance to change their names after 1 March.
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