Several French streaming personalities are mobilizing to fight cyberbullying on Twitch.
They founded the Place de la Paix (PDP) project.
This tool aims to fight “against sexism, misogyny and racism in Twitch chats” underlines Billy on Twitter, one of the streamers who took part in this action.
This platform will be able to help the channels present on Twitch to identify problematic messages, deemed "inappropriate" and which are published live on the online chat, reports
Le Figaro
.
"Place de la Paix is a project that is based on an under-exploited resource on Twitch: collective intelligence", points out the platform on its home page.
As presented live, the tool to fight against sexism, mysoginia and racism in Twitch chats is online: https://t.co/iY8Tv3FaJh 🙏🏼❤️ thread to unroll just below
— Billy ☄️🧡 (@RebeuDeter) December 20, 2022
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The ras-le-bol of the streamers
The alarm signal was raised by streamers a few weeks ago.
Videographer Maghla notably highlighted the many sexist and misogynistic remarks present on the chat of her channel.
Behaviors pushing the streamer to block accounts “by the dozen”.
I'm tired and it's time for me to explain.
I've been streaming for years and open my mouth about 10% max of the problem, because apparently you have to ignore it for it to pass.
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— Maghlarnaque (@Maghla) October 24, 2022
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Place de la Paix provides channel owners or chat moderators with a bot, i.e. an automated account, which can be called up at any time.
As soon as an inappropriate comment is spotted, all you have to do is type “@PDP_Bot@username” to identify a malicious user.
A radical banishment
The pinned user will be neutralized by the bot and will no longer be able to write for 24 hours on the streamer's discussion thread.
Moderators then examine the user's history.
They can then decide to cancel the decision or “confirm the malice”.
In which case, it will be impossible for the user to connect to all the channels registered on the Place de la Paix network.
Twitch did sign the European Union's Code of Conduct Against Online Hate last June.
But these actions in the field are considered insufficient by many actors.
Since this summer, streamers can share a list of users they have banned with each other.
The system put in place by PDP is much more responsive.
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