Australian streaming platform Kick swiftly removes Myanmar junta propaganda channels

Mizzima An Australian live-streaming platform, Kick, has removed multiple propaganda channels linked toMyanmar’s illegal military junta within hours of their launch, refusing to host the accounts for even 24hours. According to Justice For Myanmar, the junta began using Kick after its propaganda accounts wereremoved from Amazon-owned Twitch. Shortly after the junta started livestreaming on Kick, the platformtook down the accounts. The removed channels included MRTV HD, MITV, MRTV News, MRTV Farmers,MRTV Sports, MRTV NRC and MRTV Entertainment. The junta had had intended to use Kick to livestream content through MRTV websites and mobileapplications. Following the takedown, MRTV websites and apps displayed an error message from Kickstating that the connection appeared to be unavailable. Kick is a Melbourne-based company owned by Australian billionaire Ed Craven and his business partnerBijan Tehrani. Like Twitch, Kick is primarily used for live streaming gaming. Justice For Myanmar continues to call on all tech companies to take down the junta’s propagandaaccounts and ban the junta from using their platforms. In a further development, YouTube has also removed the junta’s Myanmar International TV (MITV)channel. YouTube had previously taken down the military’s Ministry of Information channel, and MITVhad already been removed by Twitch and Facebook. MITV has been
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