Hasan ‘Hasanabi’ Piker got yeeted off the short-form video platform for ‘hateful behavior’
Hasanabi is making headlines for being permabanned on TikTok for “hateful behavior” after his editor reposted a clip from Hasanabi’s December 14 livestream on Black Lives Matter versus All Lives Matter.
Hasanabi is one of Twitch’s most popular broadcasters, garnering tens of thousands of viewers whenever he goes live on the Amazon-owned livestreaming platform. A left-leaning progressive socialist, Hasanabi has covered an innumerable amount of political events from the 2020 election to the January 6 insurrection and beyond.
As his editor Ostonox noted on Twitter, Hasanabi was banned on TikTok for “hate speech.” Ostonox explained that the clip, a small segment from Hasanabi’s December 14 livestream where he reacts to a video by The Cut, was about “how ‘Black Lives Matter’ means we need to end the systemic discrimination and police violence against Black people in the United States.” The worst part of this permaban is it happened on Martin Luther King Jr. day.
“Like, there you go,” Hasanabi said in the above clip. “That’s a great way to look at the extremes on both sides. One side is saying ‘Black lives matter and Black lives are a part of all lives, so all lives clearly don’t matter until Black lives matter because Black lives currently don’t matter.’ The other side is saying ‘Nah, fuck that, all lives matter actually. Black lives matter, too, you’re just fucking wrong for bringing that up.’ The extreme in that situation is one side saying, correctly, that Black people are disproportionately targeted by the criminal justice system and sometimes even killed as a consequence of that disproportionate targeting and systemic racism. The other side is denying that reality. On the extreme side on the other side, they’re also taking matters in their own fucking hands. So, how can you look at that situation and go, ‘Huh, both sides have some ideas here’?”
“Our latest video [was posted on January 16] and started doing really well because it satirized the current TikTok trend of pages that pair multiple colorful, engaging videos together to increase watch time,” Ostonox said. “I’m not sure which part constitutes ‘hateful behavior’ as the clip used is of him explaining why ‘Black Lives Matter’ is a phrase meant to highlight the systemic oppression of Black people in the US.”
Hasanabi tried appealing the permaban but, according to a screenshot he posted on Twitter, was denied and remains yeeted off the platform.
In a livestream on the same day, Hasanabi reacted to the TikTok permaban, shaking his head and saying he’s “so fucking mad” about it.
“Anytime a TikTok of mine goes viral, it gets automatically mass reported and I get fucking permabanned,” Hasanabi said. “Every single time, dude. How? How? I mean, it’s insane. It’s insane, dude, it’s fucking insane. Every single time. Like, without fail. I hate it so much.”
I can't believe there's been multiple top-of-the-sitepage liberalsocialist posts and they're not only news articles with a few riffs from liberalsocialist but they're also completely controversy-free.
Two :gold-communist: for the guy
TBF, one post did get removed by a mod lmao.
they can't all be bangers, still proud of you
One step forwards two steps back:lenin-heisenberg:
This is why there's two gold stars instead of one
He’s getting unbanned! Probably.
Now they have to do it for DDN and stop banning black people.
That shit pisses me off the most when Americans will say "whataboutism" with Facebook being THE internet for a lot of countries in the global south, pushing US propaganda with a hard right-wing slant.
It is but Americans think TikTok in the US is still under full control of the Chinese government.
If he gets unbanned I hope Hasan kicks up some noise for others. This is a legit opportunity to get TikTok to change the policies that have been causing this. If he just moves on from it and doesn't try to get change to happen it's an L.
I disagree. They definitely can and are successfully bullied when enough media attention is drawn to something. Hasan would have remained banned if this hadn't occurred on MLK day, creating one hell of a tasty headline for a media which is 110% about headlines. I've watched as reddit and others have been successfully bullied by managing to get enough media attention on something.
And not to forget that the internals of these companies are just various individuals with various ideas and beliefs. It is quite possible to create internal pressures and problems for management within a team via employees pulling and pushing for different things that end up creating concessions and outcomes that are beneficial to us in overall policy.
I'm not overestimating, I have seen this occur numerous times. I think you are overestimating the level of control that really occurs, the actions that constitute "we need to save capitalism" only occur in focused bursts as and when it becomes a major interest of a CEO (at the behest of major shareholders) or private owner and even then the methods through which the policy trickles into various branches of an organisation are clandestine. The policy enacted ends up not being "we need to do this to save capitalism" but gets abstracted with new excuses at each and every layer of the org where management makes up their own excuses to justify it to people that they need to do the work.
The outcomes of this abstraction are imperfect. And during the vast majority of time where it is not a major focus and instead various focuses are growth or other things the pressures and influences internally in a company push and pull policy in a variety of ways.
Oh yeah. Heard people saying China did this because they're sensitive to racial issue due to Xinjiang.
Pretty much. I think the Xinjiang rumor is 💯 bullshit and no different than what every other big tech giant does.
Chinese TikTok is a separate platform with separate rules, the CPC's censors don't have any sway on the international versions of the app.
but i heard multiple times that tiktok is them doing an opium war on "us"
It probably just got mass reported and no human even got involved because these platforms are absolutely against cutting into their profits for any reason.
The appeal was probably not even a person, or it was a person who was only allowed to verify that the word recognition on the video was correct, or shit like that. Which is a common thing.
Apparently TikTok support hastily reversed the ban already when the story went viral that they banned a major streamer for an educational video about Black Lives Matter, on MLK day.
No way is it a one-off fuck up. TikTok has been suppressing the UK left on the platform for months.
https://twitter.com/DoubleDownNews/status/1578329978805985281
It's a pattern, actually. They regularly remove leftist accounts, especially they start blowing up.
No, you have to couch that dangerous term in more appealing words that make it clear he's not one of those dangerous "authoritarians" or "tankies" or "communists".
:hasan-smash: Every single time, dude. How? :hasan-smash: How? I mean, it’s insane. :hasan-smash: It’s insane, dude, it’s fucking insane. :hasan-smash: Every single time. Like, without fail. I hate it so much. :hasan-smash:
