Dr. Disrespect permanently banned from Twitch

.Lethal said:
He just got fired from his game dev studio he co-founded while streaming and starts talking about retirement.

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On Friday evening we became aware of an allegation against one of our co-founder’s Guy Beahm aka Dr Disrespect.

We assumed his innocence and began speaking with parties involved. And in order to maintain our principles and standards as a studio and individuals, we needed to act.

For this reason, we are terminating our relationship with Guy Beahm immediately.

While these facts are difficult to hear and even more difficult to accept, it is our duty to act with dignity on behalf of all individuals involved, especially the fifty-five developers and families we have employed along with our community of players.
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Translation:

"We thought he was innocent"
"We began speaking to him/Twitch/etc"
"We no longer think he's innocent and are acting in our best interests"
 
ubersonic said:
Translation:

"We thought he was innocent"
"We began speaking to him/Twitch/etc"
"We no longer think he's innocent and are acting in our best interests"
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They knew the reasons well before all this became public imo. It was known within the industry and many have said recently they were surprised it took this long to come out. The doc was notified via text during stream and given a heads up before the firing became public and that gave him an opportunity to announce his extended break.

There was a Rust twitch event way back and some had caught twitch staff openly talking about this on the server.

Morals and ethics aren't an important factor when it comes to business but when the proverbial hits the fan action needs to be taken to protect themselves.
 
No official evidence is available, he quite clearly signed an NDA with Twitch and is restricted in what he can say.

These allegations came out at the time of his twitch ban, but were never evidenced. They resurfaced again last week when an ex twitch employee reiterated them in an effort to gain publicity for a band he has (so not exactly reliable)

Many may not like the guy, but he has a family and kids. We all really need to understand what happened but we may never do.

Given what we do know and what Guy has said in tweets my take on it is they fired him over something > turned out it was more Morally reprehsible than Illegal > that put twutch on shakey ground legally > forced twitch to payout his contract > both sides signed NDA's

It would be nice to actually hear the truth but i suspect neither party will want to break the NDA.
 
edscdk said:
id say its so suspicious it needs investigating by the authorities, they can look at the evidence and decide if anything was done wrong..
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I would have thought if it was anything criminal Twitch would have been duty bound to pass it to the Police, maybe they did and the Police found nothing or insufficient evidence.

Very hard to form any concrete opinion when no one relevant is talking or is public record.
 
Obviously nobody but a few in that court room know what happened but I think its important to state given all the pedo accusations he is getting, is that texting a minor is not illegal. Can it be morally questionable if the intent is heading towards grooming territory? Absolutely.

So lets say he was texting a minor using Twitch tools and that was discussed in the civil court...obviously the line was more morally grey, rather than he straight up belongs in jail otherwise why would Twitch even entertain the notion of settling.

I don't hold any weight to rando Twitch employees mouthing off on Twitter.
 
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I hate the internet and people these days.

Everyone is an absolute disgusting POS immediately without proof and the internet has to cast revenge in all ways, even if it has not resulted in a criminal conviction or rehabilitation, they must be dragged along the stones and razor blades until nothing is left.

Of course, yes if there is a convicted P word around, they should not be around kids or producing content for kids. Notice the word convicted though.
 
edscdk said:
id say its so suspicious it needs investigating by the authorities, they can look at the evidence and decide if anything was done wrong..
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Here's the thing, I don't believe you go to jail for messaging a minor for sex. Doc might be completely right about "no wrongdoing" if it is kept within "was anything illegal".

Ok so you find out your business partner did that, what you gonna do. Nothing because it's not illegal?
 
sidimmu said:
Of course, yes if there is a convicted P word around, they should not be around kids or producing content for kids. Notice the word convicted though.
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I'd go with "confirmed" rather than "convicted", otherwise we'd be saying its ok for a P who didnt get convicted in court to be producing content for kids.
 
Hotwired said:
In a court of law.

But the way people choose to reply to an allegation can lean in favour or away from an allegation.

You don't have to reply to someone talking trash about you. But when you do reply and it's vague then you've volunteered that there's truth in the accusation and you're not willing to state you're clean.

If an NDA just expired I'm thinking he doesn't dare give a full straight denial and he doesn't dare ignore it either because it's a person who really knows the details.
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People will interpret what ever they want in any response. Usually interpretation are inline with their confirmation bias.
 
Tombstone said:
I'd go with "confirmed" rather than "convicted", otherwise we'd be saying its ok for a P who didnt get convicted in court to be producing content for kids.
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Well theres the thing about it, that is two different contexts and reasons.

A convicted paedo shows sexual intent and the lack of ability to learn, be remorseful and to change, which is why they need to be classed as such as public protected.

If this is a "confirmed" he was talking to a youngster, are we going to send him and all down the same path as a convicted P without the knowledge thats actually what he is or what the messages were.
I could go and message a 14 year old this second, does that mean I should be "confirmed"?

Or its just the usual malarkey of this generational curse - shoot first, question later, apologise never.
 
Surely if he did what he's been accused of that is not something that could have been settled outside of court, Twitch would have to report it to the authorities. If they didn't then this is as bad for them as it is him.
 
Jase said:
Surely if he did what he's been accused of that is not something that could have been settled outside of court, Twitch would have to report it to the authorities. If they didn't then this is as bad for them as it is him.
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Which is why it cannot be as bad as the social justice warriors are claiming.

But also, must destroy popular white guy that has opposing views.
 
m4rmite said:
You mean like our jimmy.

Now then, now then.
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I’m assuming you are talking about saville. He died before he could be convicted, as the evidence only became public after his death.

If you have enough evidence to confirm someone is a pedo you have enough evidence to convict them. Outside of actual miscarriages in justice.
 
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