Others are taking note of these Twitch streams, too - and taking action. “That’s yet to be adjudicated in a court of law,” Gault said. In response, the military banned users from its chat rooms, a move that’s been called out as an act of government censorship. “They would ask about Eddie Gallagher, the Navy SEAL that was turned in by his fellow Navy SEALs for alleged war crimes, and that Trump later pardoned - just kind of asking really unpleasant questions about the military,” said Matthew Gault, a contributing editor at Vice’s Motherboard who has reported on the trolling and spoken about it on an episode of the Reset podcast. The US military is trying to get people interested in enlisting with the help of Twitch, a highly popular video game streaming platform - so civilian gamers are now using government-moderated chat rooms as an opportunity to troll the military.
