Dr. Disrespect breaks the silence, but Twitch still refuses …

What you’ve probably heard: Three months after signing an exclusive two-year deal with Twitch for a “life-changing” amount of money, Twitch has, however, “permanently banned” Guy Beahm, aka Dr. . Disrespect, for something he did in violation of company rules. What you might be thinking: It’s too much of a coincidence that his channel’s abrupt disappearance occurred a single day after Twitch announced that it would begin permanently banning broadcasts for harassment. The truth: We currently don’t know if Twitch has even banned Beahm, much less the facts about why the disrespect disappeared on Friday, because the company has repeatedly refused to confirm even a ban on The Verge, and declined to deny a new statement from Beahm tonight that says Twitch won’t even tell him what’s going on.

It’s Beahm’s first word since her channel abruptly disappeared from Twitch on Friday afternoon, and it’s clearly designed to suggest that Twitch is wrong. Perhaps he knows very well what is happening and is hiding behind the words “specific reason”, but we have no current evidence of anything at this time; Again, neither Twitch nor Disrespect have confirmed that it is being suspended, much less banned, much less permanently. To be frank, we haven’t seen anything to rule out the possibility that disrespect was removed from Twitch for whatever reason, unlikely as it may seem. The idea that it was permanently banned originally came from second hand, sources that They spoke anonymously through others on Twitter, and both the people tweeting have since explained that they were unwilling or unable to share the reason. Since then, Kotaku has corroborated a ban with three additional sources, but for some currently inexplicable reason, Twitch won’t get that far. Occasionally in the past we’ve seen companies do that because they prefer the world’s current understanding of a situation, even when that understanding is wrong. The only thing Twitch has provided is this statement, which declined to connect to Beahm, even as we explained which leaves open the possibility that Beahm has not been banned.

“As is our process, we take appropriate action when we have evidence that a streamer has acted in violation of our Community Guidelines or Terms of Service. This applies to all streamers, regardless of their status or importance in the community. “

It is quite possible that everything will be revealed in due course, and all posts currently reporting that Dr. Disrespect has been permanently banned will be justified after the fact. Perhaps there is also a very good reason why some facts should be withheld. The only facts available at this time are that Dr. Disrespect has disappeared from Twitch; Twitch and Beahm won’t say why; and many people wonder when we will all know.