Twitch has blocked the US Army from running controller gifts after they allegedly redirected viewers to a military recruiting page. A report from The Nation found out how the US Army The Nation found that viewers watching the Army channel were presented with chat messages to “win an Xbox Elite Series 2 controller.” But when clicking on the link to enter the giveaway, users reportedly came across “a recruitment form with no further mention of a contest, odds, total number of winners or when a giveaway will occur.” When contacted by The Nation for comment, the United States Army declined to respond.A Twitch spokesman issued a statement to Kotaku, announcing that the promotion had been removed. “Under our Terms of Service, promotions on Twitch must comply with all applicable laws. This promotion did not comply with our Terms, and we have required them to remove it,” the statement read.
Last week, the same account came under fire after it was discovered that it was banning users asking about war crimes in the broadcast chat. The US Army issued a statement in response justifying its approach, noting that “the user’s question was an attempt to change the conversation to involve soldiers committing war crimes based on an optional weapon in a game. , and we feel it violated Twitch’s harassment policy. ” “
Twitch has been in the news regularly recently, with banned transmitter Dr. Disrespect saying that he still doesn’t know why he was kicked off the platform, and Donald Trump’s channel serving a two-week suspension for broadcasting hateful content.
Jordan Oloman is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow him on Twitter.
