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Hasan Piker detained at the border and questioned for hours over politics (www.usermag.co)

submitted 2 months ago by Domino@lemmings.world to c/world@quokk.au

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Hasan Piker, the biggest progressive political streamer in America, was detained by Customs and Border Protection for hours of questioning upon returning to the U.S. from a trip to France this weekend. Piker posted about the incident on X and later talked about it on stream.

He was detained in Chiago and questioned for two hours about protected journalistic activities like who he’s interviewed and his political beliefs. He was asked whether or not he’d interviewed Hamas, Houthis, or Hezbollah members. He was questioned about his opinions on Trump and Israel and asked about his history of bans on Twitch. His phone and laptop were not confiscated.

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[-] KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Which part of "America"? From the US, neither his face or name seem familiar and I'm trying to gauge my level of out-of-touchiness in light of this "biggest" streamer.

[-] jerakor@startrek.website 29 points 2 months ago

He is the 21st most popular Twitch streamer and the most popular left wing Twitch streamer. His Uncle is Cenk who is co founder of The Young Turks. He is very very well known for actual Left wing politics.

[-] TheOakTree@lemm.ee 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Straight from his Wikipedia page:

Piker's stream covering the results of the 2020 United States presidential election peaked at 230,000 concurrent viewers and was the sixth most-watched source of election coverage across YouTube and Twitch, comprising 4.9% of the market share.

I'd say that's a pretty significant portion of all online coverage for that election. He's not famous famous but he's definitely a big online political figure.

[-] ProvableGecko@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

If you have other progressive political streamers in your part of America, I'd love to give them a listen if you don't mind sharing. Love discovering new voices.