Twitch has some odd enforcements for their content creators and livestreamers, especially when said streamers find themselves in real life perilous situations. That’s how things unfolded for streamer BeesOnMyHeadTV, when he was fired upon during a carjacking and Twitch’s response was to ban the streamer.
Dexerto reported on the incident, which occurred while BeesOnMyHeadTV was livestreaming his content to the Twitch audience while he was out and about. This is a common thing to do by a lot of livestreamers. During the broadcast, however, he was shot at and carjacked on September 14th, 2019. As reported by Dexerto, shortly after the event occurred Twitch proceeded to suspend his account. Why? Because they claimed that Dexerto was engaged in an “on-stream emergency”, and so in their infinite wisdom they decided to temporarily ban the person streaming.
BeesOnMyHeadTV shared the notice from Twitch support, where the ban was originally “indefinite” but was later lifted.
What the actual fuck?
Try showing tits next time, I hear you just come back to twitch a day later if you show tits— Bio (@Biodrone11) September 16, 2019
Plenty of people complained about Twitch suspending the streamer for something completely beyond his control.
A day later on September 17th, 2019, BeesOnMyHeadTV tweeted out that his account had been restored and that the archived video of the incident had been deleted.
the support has been incredible. the ban has been lifted. the VOD was deleted… but thankfully someone got their hands on a recording of the whole stream. turns out theres more to this than previously thought.
— Jonny Zeta / BeesOnMyHeadTV (@JonnyZetaTV) September 17, 2019
As pointed out by some of his followers, deleting the video was actually an act of attempting to erase evidence, and suspending his account so people couldn’t access the video likely could have obstructed any potential police investigations. Yet in the mind of Twitch’s support staff they were censoring the content and suspending the user in order to… protect them? The whole thing is completely counter-intuitive to actually helping anyone.
the support has been incredible. the ban has been lifted. the VOD was deleted… but thankfully someone got their hands on a recording of the whole stream. turns out theres more to this than previously thought.
— Jonny Zeta / BeesOnMyHeadTV (@JonnyZetaTV) September 17, 2019
In this rare case things worked out for BeesOnMyHeadTV with his account being restored and being able to stream again. However, if these kind of incidents occur in the future, Twitch could be causing more harm than good by erasing potential evidence in a criminal case.
(Thanks for the news tip KrumpyOldGamer)
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