Former President Donald Trump – once again officially the Republican presidential nominee – is no longer banned from the streaming platform Twitch.
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Trump was banned indefinitely in 2021 following the Jan. 6 insurrection attempt at the Capitol. His ban was quietly lifted on Friday – seemingly as the entire online infrastructure was brought down by the CrowdStrike outage. Why was Trump allowed to come back? Well, he’s officially a presidential candidate after this week’s Republican National Convention, so, Twitch reasoned, he’s newsworthy enough to bring him back.
“We have restored former President Trump’s Twitch channel,” a Twitch spokesperson said via The Verge. “We believe there is value in hearing directly from the president’s nominee, if possible. Trump is now the official Republican nominee for president of the United States.”
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trump card Can However, he found himself in trouble with Twitch again because he will Follow the company’s normal community guidelines. The former president has repeatedly proven that adhering to the guidelines is a difficult task for him.
“We will continue to enforce our Community Guidelines and take necessary enforcement action when we see violations of the rules,” a Twitch spokesperson said. “Twitch does not have a ‘Public Figure Policy,’ meaning all channels adhere to our policies equally.” Guidelines, regardless of whether the channel belongs to a public figure.”
You’d be forgiven for thinking Twitch had already made this move—many other social media sites have already allowed Trump to return. YouTube and Elon Musk’s X lifted bans, and Meta recently lifted harsh suspensions it had previously imposed on Trump’s Instagram and Facebook pages.
In short: Trump is completely back online.
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