A number of Twitch users have become aware of the U.S Army's dislike for the phrase "war crimes," with some experiencing ban🍬s for mentioning the above on the🃏 platform's chat, according to .
Users recently got banned from the Army's official Esports Discord channel as the server shut down where new users were concerned due to a member influx. Per the publication, the server is still inaccessible,🌜 leaving folks to hog the Army's Twitch chat.
Green Beret Joshua "Strotnium" David hopped on for a game 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Call of Duty: Warzone session on Wednesday night and esports personality R🌺od "Slasher" Breslau would post a video of himself getting banned after asking "what's your favorite us war crime." Slasher found out the Army has an automatic setup to moderate the mention of "war crimes."
He changed theꦏ query to "whats your favorite u.s. w4r cr1me?" and linked the Wikipedia page for United States war💮 crimes - this is a practice among persons purposely - and was banned nearly immediately.
After the video was posted to Twitter, other users joined in on what turned out to be a ban speedrun on Twitch. Some users criticized the military's use of the Twitch pla🍎tform for recruitment and others lamented the 2019 ruling 🌃that prevents transgenders from serving.
The Army, Navy, and Air Force have their own s💃ports teams but have faced criticism for using 🃏games in order to attempt recruitment, not least the fact that users as young as 13 are allowed signups.
The stream in question was cut short before returning with a chat that only allowed users who had follow♈ed the account for more than 24 hours. The channel gained 660 new followers, according to TwitchT🐈racker, which serves as indication of several people attempting to bypass the restrictions.
The Army sub🌄sequently sent Vice a statement, which couꦰld be read below:
"The U.S. Army eSports Team follows the guidelines and policies set by Twitch, and they did ban a user from their account," the statement read. "Team memberꦇs are very clear when talking with potential applicants that a game does not reflect a real Army experience. They discuss their career experiences in rea🦹l terms with factual events.
"Team members ensure people understand what the Army offers through a realistic lens and not through the lens of a game meant for entertainment. This user's question was an attempt to shift the conversation to imply that Soldiers commit war crimes based on an optional weapon in a game, and we felt that violated Twitch's harassment policy. The U.S. Army offers youth more than 150 different careers, and ultimately the goal of the Army eSports Team is to accurately portray that range of opportunities to in🔯terested youth."
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