The U.S. Army doesn't like it when you ask about war crimes during their Twitch streams

Gamers are notoriously thin-skinned when it comes to criticism, but you’d imagine ones conditioned by the might of the United States military would be a bit tougher than, say, the average 13-year-old shit-talker. Not so, it turns out.

As first reported by esports consultant Rod Breslau, the U.S. Army’s esports team recently suspended all its “social activity, streaming on Twitch, and official activations with Twitch including participating in upcoming Twitch Rivals events” after advertising fake contest giveaways and allegedly violating our First Amendment right as Americans to repeatedly ask them about war crimes.

Apparently, the military’s gamers don’t like it when you ask questions like “whats your favorite us war crime?” or bring up Eddie Gallagher, a Navy SEAL who faced numerous war crimes charges, while they livestream Call of Duty. This, while somewhat understandable, is what we civilians like to call “tough noogies,” since it’s a well-established fact within U.S. constitutional law that the government cannot infringe on our rights to free speech, including statements critical of our country.