{"id":91702,"date":"2025-03-04T01:16:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T01:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/twitch-bans-hasan-piker-after-comment-about-killing-us-senator\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T01:16:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T01:16:55","slug":"twitch-bans-hasan-piker-after-comment-about-killing-us-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/twitch-bans-hasan-piker-after-comment-about-killing-us-senator\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitch Bans Hasan Piker After Comment About Killing US Senator"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Twitch has temporarily banned Hasan Piker<\/a><\/span> for a fifth time on Monday shortly after the leftist streamer talked about how if Republicans really cared about Medicaid they would kill Florida Senator Rick Scott. \u201cBig shout out to the right wing free speech lovers who took time out of their day screaming about dei & immigrants, to cry abt this!\u201d he posted on X<\/a><\/span> after his stream was taken down. <\/p>\n

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One of the Amazon-owned platforms\u2019 top streamers, Piker is known for his unfiltered leftwing critiques and reactions to political news and world events. During a stream on Monday he was reacting to recent comments<\/a><\/span> by House Speaker Mike Johnson about Republicans\u2019 budget priorities when the comments that seemingly got him banned for the fifth time in the platform\u2019s history were made. <\/p>\n

The Louisiana Congressman told CNN that Republicans are looking to \u201ccarve out\u201d waste, fraud, and abuse in welfare entitlements, including \u201c$50 billion lost in Medicaid just in fraud alone.\u201d Hasan interrupted the clip to argue that Medicaid fraud is predominantly perpetuated by providers rather than individual people before pointing out that current Florida Senator Rick Scott ran a healthcare company that was fined $1.7 billion back in 2003<\/a><\/span> for defrauding the federal government. Scott has dismissed that case \u201cpolitical persecution<\/a><\/span>.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cIf you cared about Medicare fraud or Medicaid fraud you would kill Rick Scott,\u201d Piker said on today\u2019s stream. \u201cYou wouldn\u2019t make Rick Scott, former Governor of Florida Rick Scott, you wouldn\u2019t make him…the fucking head of the Senate Committee or something like the Republican fund raising initiatives.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Twitch has not confirmed the reason for Piker\u2019s latest ban, the platform has guidelines banning users from making comments supporting hateful conduct or harm toward others. The company\u2019s latest revision to this policy came in November 2024<\/a><\/span> as Twitch tried to moderate conversations about Israel and Palestine<\/a><\/span>. Like many of the platform\u2019s past attempts at clear and firm moderation, however, Twitch\u2019s interpretation of its rules can seem vague and not always equally enforced<\/a><\/span>. <\/p>\n

\u201cim sorry!\u201d Piker wrote on X<\/a><\/span> following the ban. \u201cill choose my words carefully next time & say \u201cif mike johnson cares abt medicare fraud (since he wants to cut 800m from medicaid\/medicare) he\u2019d call for MAX PUNISHMENT for current fl gop senator\/former gov rick scott- who has done the most medicare fraud in us history!\u201d<\/p>\n

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