'The US military is your average online cringelord,' gaming consultant Rod Breslau tweeted.
The U.S. Army and Navy have both faced controversies due to their Twitch channels in recent months. In July, the military branches chose to ban hundreds of users who spoke critically of U.S. military action around the world. After further criticism, the Army and Navy temporarily stopped using Twitch to stream games,, but restarted in August. The military has reportedly turned to the live-streaming platform as a means of becoming more relatable to Gen Z.
The Navy's esports team helps"make sailors and what we do more relatable to a new generation," Dennis Velez, commander at Navy Recruiting Command, told CNN in August. The U.S. Department of the Navy seal hangs on the wall on February 24, 2009 at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.After the military branches banned Twitch users who had asked questions about alleged U.S. war crimes, civil rights lawyers warned that this action could violate the First Amendment.
"If the Army run Twitch channel is a public forum, then deleting comments or blocking people from commenting based on their viewpoints, such as asking about military crimes, would violate the first amendment," Katie Fallow, a senior staff attorney with the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University"It looks like what happened was a violation of the First Amendment," Vera Eidelman, a staff attorney for the ACLU's Speech, Privacy and Technology Project told...
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