Edward Craven may not personally agree with vile content such as Holocaust denial. But his live-streaming platform is doing little to police it.
Racist, homophobic and antisemitic hate speech, including Holocaust denial, has been allowed to spread freely on an Australian live-streaming platform co-owned and run by 29-year-old billionaire Edward Craven.
But a streamer who had denied the Holocaust on another channel has been allowed his own account, which he has used this week to make a Hitler salute and praise a Hamas leader as “an absolute hero”. The site has also failed to moderate discriminatory user comments about Muslims, African-Americans, Indians and Jews, including grotesque caricatures of hook-nosed characters.Craven launched Kick in 2022, having already built his fortune through Stake.com, the international casino and sports betting platform that has made him richer than News Corp chairman Lachlan Murdoch., Craven is building Melbourne’s most expensive home, a Toorak mega-mansion, on a property he purchased for $88 million.
Viewers of his channel frequently leave miniature images, or “emotes”, containing antisemitic caricatures in the on-screen “chat” column.Ross, who is Jewish, has featured a number of guests with histories of making antisemitic comments, including American Nick Fuentes, who has been described as a white supremacist by the US Justice Department.
Another frequent guest on Ross’s Kick channel, “Sneako”, has a pattern of being banned from and rejoining live-streaming platforms.investigation published in May found a range of sexually inappropriate behaviour toward minors by Kick streamers, including Sneako, who met a pair of teenage girls online while streaming. When one said they were underage, he asked “how underage?Sneako, who said “down with the yahud ” on another streaming site this year, signed up to Kick again this week.
Calling on Kick to immediately take down antisemitic and other hateful material, Oboler said the culture being promoted by some users was reminiscent of the notorious image board site 4chan. Craven made clear his personal distaste for the content. But he said it wasn’t Kick’s role to hand Ross a suspension as he was only “allowing that conversation to take place on his channel”, rather than “inciting” it.
“Our terms of service on hate speech are clear, and we will remove content and take action against creators and users for breaches these terms,” the spokeswoman said in a written statement. One said Kick employees treated streamers differently based on their sex or race, and that homophobic and racial slurs were common.“The women on the platform were many times called ‘whores’ and ‘thots’.”
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