Twitch sues unnamed pair linked to 'hate raids' – France 24

/ Live news Issued on: 11/09/2021 – 04:30Modified: 11/09/2021 – 04:28 Twitch has filed a lawsuit against two unnamed users over hateful comments on its video game streaming site Lionel BONAVENTURE AFP/File San Francisco (AFP) Twitch is suing two users in US federal court, accusing them of orchestrating ‘hate raids’ spewing abuse at video game play streamers who are not white or straight.The Amazon-owned platform is seeking unspecified cash damages from the pair, identified in the lawsuit as a Netherlands resident behind the account CruzzControl and a Vienna resident with a CreatineOverdose account.In about August of this year, CruzzControl and CreatineOverdose “began coordinating attacks on Twitch’s streamers by raiding their channels and spamming those communities with hate,” Twitch said in the lawsuit filed Thursday in San Francisco.Hate raid targets were often streamers from marginalized groups, such as racial minorities or members of the LGBTQ+ community, according to the filing.”Defendants attack these streamers by flooding their chats with bot-powered Twitch accounts that spew racist, sexist, and homophobic language and content,” the suit stated.Bots are software programs that can quickly and automatically fire off messages or other content.”Defendants’ bots permit them to spew hateful content at a robotic pace, often sending dozens…
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