Twitch has briefly banned Hasan Piker for a fifth time on Monday shortly after the leftist streamer talked about how if Republicans actually cared about Medicaid they might kill Florida Senator Rick Scott. “Large shout out to the best wing free speech lovers who took outing of their day screaming about dei & immigrants, to cry abt this!” he posted on X after his stream was taken down.
One of many Amazon-owned platforms’ prime streamers, Piker is thought for his unfiltered leftwing critiques and reactions to political information and world occasions. Throughout a stream on Monday he was reacting to current feedback by Home Speaker Mike Johnson about Republicans’ funds priorities when the feedback that seemingly obtained him banned for the fifth time within the platform’s historical past had been made.
The Louisiana Congressman instructed CNN that Republicans wish to “carve out” waste, fraud, and abuse in welfare entitlements, together with “$50 billion misplaced in Medicaid simply in fraud alone.” Hasan interrupted the clip to argue that Medicaid fraud is predominantly perpetuated by suppliers reasonably than particular person folks earlier than mentioning that present Florida Senator Rick Scott ran a healthcare firm that was fined $1.7 billion again in 2003 for defrauding the federal authorities. Scott has dismissed that case “political persecution.”
“When you cared about Medicare fraud or Medicaid fraud you’ll kill Rick Scott,” Piker mentioned on right now’s stream. “You wouldn’t make Rick Scott, former Governor of Florida Rick Scott, you wouldn’t make him…the fucking head of the Senate Committee or one thing just like the Republican fund elevating initiatives.”
Whereas Twitch has not confirmed the rationale for Piker’s newest ban, the platform has pointers banning customers from making feedback supporting hateful conduct or hurt towards others. The corporate’s newest revision to this coverage got here in November 2024 as Twitch tried to reasonable conversations about Israel and Palestine. Like most of the platform’s previous makes an attempt at clear and agency moderation, nevertheless, Twitch’s interpretation of its guidelines can appear obscure and never all the time equally enforced.
“im sorry!” Piker wrote on X following the ban. “in poor health select my phrases rigorously subsequent time & say “if mike johnson cares abt medicare fraud (since he needs to chop 800m from medicaid/medicare) he’d name for MAX PUNISHMENT for present fl gop senator/former gov rick scott- who has carried out probably the most medicare fraud in us historical past!”
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