David Pakman Given 30-Day Twitch Ban

David Pakman’s recent coverage of the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse resulted in a 30-day Twitch ban, but he still continues to broadcast it elsewhere outside the streaming platform.

Hundreds of Twitch streamers have been banned from the platform over the years for a variety of reasons, and one popular streamer was recently suspended for 30 days. David Pakman, a political commentator, recently discussed the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, which resulted in him receiving a ban.

David Pakman hosts a political commentary TV and radio show, streamed live on Twitch that he hosts on a regular basis. Pakman’s show has never been the subject of a Twitch ban before, but the host recently informed his Twitch followers that he has been banned for 30 days. He recently took to Twitter to express his feelings about the 30-day suspension and why he received it.

According to David Pakman, his 30-day ban resulted from hate reporting on Twitch during his coverage of the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse where hate raids on Twitch have impacted a number of content creators, and hate reporting has had an impact on a number of them as well. Hate reporting isn’t just limited to Twitch; many online platforms have a reporting system that is occasionally abused by users.

Although David Pakman admits that some of the evidence presented during the Kyle Rittenhouse trial was graphic, he accuses Twitch of enforcing its terms and conditions inconsistently by banning him for 30 days over the trial’s content. In response to his 30-day Twitch ban and said that gory and sexual content in video games continues to be poured into the platform nonstop. Many of his supporters defended him and his position, while others pointed out that some studies suggest there is no link between real-life violence and video game violence.

The show of David Pakman isn’t just on TV, radio, or Twitch; he also frequently uploads on-demand video content to his YouTube channel and, like many other YouTubers, he has been subjected to false claims on the platform, though the majority of his content has remained unaffected. David Pakman, like other online political commentators, has a website that charges a subscription fee to support his message.

David Pakman has gone on the record on his show to discuss the ongoing pandemic, government spending bills, and election results, in addition to the recent Kyle Rittenhouse trial. Pakman hasn’t been doing political commentary on Twitch for as long as Hasan Piker, but this early Twitch ban could spell trouble for his future on the platform.