i think there’s a pattern developing of twitch responding to external pressures against him by banning him for a sunday and then unbanning him at night so he can do the regular news coverage on monday. which is to say, i don’t think they’re actually responding in any meaningful way on the basis of any particular actual reason like “antisemitism” or “terrorist support.” they don’t care that he’ll be beleaguered by fascists on those grounds when they ban him for a day for this purpose, but i think they see it as a pressure release valve that lets them still make money on him for now.

It also builds a portfolio of evidence and history for their eventual decision to permanently drop him at any time they feel like it without getting any dramatic rebellion from users. What Twitch is concerned about the most is the potential of streamer bans to result in audiences leaving Twitch for wherever the streamer goes to instead. In particular the potential for those audiences to create mass exoduses and rebellions because of “bad twitch decisions”. Building a large portfolio of bans up first is a safety buffer for Twitch.

This is a good sober analysis but I think there is another reason too: The manifesto is very level headed, grounded, and well reasoned.