Really interesting to see that corporations are suddenly taking some action about hatred on their platforms. It's not enough and it's late, but I'm mostly interested in why? What's changed? The legislative and govt landscape is more supportive of hate then ever, so why?...

This doesn't appear to be a flash in the pan - Reddit have banned a load of hate subreddits, Youtube seem to have banned people like Molyneux, Twitter finally dumped Hopkins & glinner - Twitch seem to have banned some people but I'm not up to speed on the details there.

My immediate reaction is that they must, for want of a better way of putting it, be aware of the numbers. Presumably hatred is just not a good look for their bottom lines right now. I don't imagine it's particularly to do with subscribers etc as hate always motivates people...

You only need to see the amount of £££ anti-trans campaigns raise to see that (although that's likely from a very small number of people). I can only imagine it's a commercial driver, so perhaps its advertisers beginning to get a bit windy about being associated with it...

...does anyone have any better intel on this? The most likely explanation is commercials but who knows? I think we can safely rule out government intervention as thats probably less likely right now than ever. In fact it's more likely govts will intervene against this. Discuss?