SAN FRANCISCO: Users of Twitch, the world’s biggest video game streaming site, staged a virtual walkout on Wednesday to voice outrage over barrages of racist, sexist and homophobic abuse on the Amazon-owned platform.
The extent of the protest remained unclear, but a TwitchTracker website indicated that there were nearly 4,000 fewer channels streaming at Twitch than the daily average for the week.
In recent months the phenomenon of “hate raids” — torrents of abuse — has been making life increasingly unpleasant for minority users of Twitch.
The protest organized using the social media hashtag #ADayOffTwitch was intended to get Twitch to do more to protect streamers from attacks.
“You won’t see anything on Twitch…
