{"id":51124,"date":"2022-12-07T23:37:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T23:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/?p=51124"},"modified":"2022-12-07T23:37:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T23:37:41","slug":"popular-twitch-streamer-hasan-piker-banned-from-twitch-for-a-malicious-copyright-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/popular-twitch-streamer-hasan-piker-banned-from-twitch-for-a-malicious-copyright-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Twitch streamer Hasan Piker banned from Twitch for a \u201cmalicious\u201d copyright claim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Twitch streamer and political commentator, Hasan Piker, 31, also known as HasanAbi, was banned from the streaming platform Twitch.com due to a copyright strike.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Piker was banned in the middle of a stream on 6 December for showing a clip of the right-wing subscription channel Censored.TV on his stream. The political commentator was dissecting the clip which led Censored.TV to issue a copyright claim that Piker tweeted to his 1,2 million Twitter followers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/nojumper\/status\/1600310109888221184\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The popular left-wing streamer will be banned from Twitch for 48 hours until 8 December. The 31-year-old Piker found the copyright claim to be issued \u201cmaliciously\u201d and with political intent, claiming on his Instagram story that \u201cNazis took down my channel on Twitch for copyright as I was criticizing them lying abt how they support free speech\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">these nazis sure love talking about free speech only to use the most abused copyright mechanism to takedown someone covering and criticizing their silly ideas. absolutely pathetic. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hS5zbvnB8s\">https:\/\/t.co\/hS5zbvnB8s<\/a><\/p>&mdash; hasanabi (@hasanthehun) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hasanthehun\/status\/1600257900651286529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 6, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Piker\u2019s over two million Twitch followers expressed their disappointment on Twitter:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hasan getting banned for covering far right content with pushback after these Nazis mass reported him is a perfect glimpse into how they weaponize \u201cfree speech\u201d They don\u2019t care about the principle. They just want to be able to spread their message while suppressing pushback.<\/p>&mdash; Mac (@GoodPoliticGuy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GoodPoliticGuy\/status\/1600272908722778112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 6, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the fourth time Piker has been banned from the platform \u2013 previously for reasons such as using the word \u2018cracker\u2019 and controversial comments about 9\/11. However, this is the first time the streamer has been banned for a copyright claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Turkish-American streamer got his start on the American news commentary show The Young Turks and began his streaming career in 2018. The streamer has become extremely popular among young people ever since and recently won the award for the best news streamer at The Youtube Streamy Awards 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">all the people who\u2019s content i stole for this award <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oTLMc1PBeu\">https:\/\/t.co\/oTLMc1PBeu<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SnHlNMUSKR\">pic.twitter.com\/SnHlNMUSKR<\/a><\/p>&mdash; hasanabi (@hasanthehun) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hasanthehun\/status\/1599623078145032193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 5, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Words: Lumi Leinonen | Subbing: Aleksandra Martynow<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Twitch streamer and political commentator, Hasan Piker, 31, also known as HasanAbi, was banned from the streaming platform Twitch.com due to a copyright strike. 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