The U.S. Army and Navy might have different express purposes and a football rivalry, but they're united in their shared passion for avoiding talk of war crimes. Soon after the Army took flak for banning viewers who asked about war crimes from its Twitch channel , the Navy is employing a similar tactic. Advertisement Like the Army, the Navy has its own Twitch channel. It's a gamer-flavored recruitment tool, and the Navy makes no bones about this. "Other people will tell you not to stay up all night staring at a screen," reads the channel's "About" section . "We'll pay you to do it." On stream, members of the Navy's esports team play a range of games including League of Legends , Escape from Tarkov , and Madden . Recently, Navy stream viewers, inspired by the Army's Twitch audience, have taken to asking about war crimes. This has not gone over well, as chronicled on Twitter by activist and writer Jordan Uhl , who previously got banned by the Army's Twitch channel and reported on the channel's recruitment efforts for The Nation . Phrases like "war crimes," as well as alternate spellings like "w4r cr1mes," are banned in chat, and… Read full this story
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