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Dr Disrespect Knowingly Sent Explicit Messages to a Minor, Former Twitch Employee Says
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I am willing to believe the accusations, but I won't take the word of people who tried to weasel out of his contract termination fees.
If they had evidence of sexting in 2017 then why didn't they report it to the police? Why quietly ban him in 2020?
Seems to me like they had monetary incentive to remove the Doc.
There is a sizeable gap between "beyond a reasonable doubt" in terms of a very specific law, and things that are gross/immoral.
People keep questioning the timeline as a defense... They might not have known until 2020. It's normally against internal company policies to just look through people's DMs. It's not like someone's job is to rifle through them. They probably were made aware of it, and then took action.
That's speculation on my part, but if Twitch sat on it for 3 years, shame on them too, but that doesn't so shit for this guy. It was still not ok.
The monetary incentive was to pay out his contract so they didn't have a VERY public story about a VERY high profile streamer inappropriately messaging a minor with their service. That could be super damaging for Twitch. So they likely paid it out to try and bury the story.
It doesn't seem like such a large gap or grey area to me. You can tell a woman "Nice T-Shirt" and that is fine but "Nice Tits" is not fine, it's a pretty clear division to me. What could the Doc say that would qualify him as the monster people are calling him but also not illegal?
They attempted to not pay out his contract btw. He had to sue them to get that, and they payed it out. If they had evidence of such behavior from him then I'm sure courts would agree that his own actions destroying his own public image would have been more than enough reason to cancel the contract.
I see you have access to what was said then. At least... I assume you do to try and split hairs defending a man who has admitted to inappropriately messaging a minor
The fuck? Where did I defend him?
I'm just dismissing delusions and mass hysteria by presenting what we do know versus what we don't. I don't NEED access to what was said, my entire statement is that we don't know what was said.