Extremely distracting advert to put on the back of a bus, at least for certain people.
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![I'd like to report an application hosted on PythonAnywhere that is being used to collect visitors' IP addresses without notice and then republish them publicly alongside false accusations of child sexual offences.
Details:
- App URL: [REDACTED] (DOT) pythonanywhere.com
- The link is distributed from https://[REDACTED].carrd.co, where it is presented as a link to the operator's Twitch channel. Visitors are given no indication that their IP address will be recorded.
- The operator then reads the collected addresses out publicly on Twitch, states that the person who clicked is a paedophile, and runs the addresses through a geolocation lookup on screen — pointing at specific residential properties on Google Maps and asserting he has identified the occupant.
- The accusations are made on the basis of an IP address and nothing else. The targets appear to be selected largely for being LGBTQ+.
I have archived the relevant Twitch clips and the carrd page and can send those over if it's useful.
On your terms: clause 5.6 requires users to comply with the Amazon Acceptable Use Policy, which prohibits use of the service that is harmful, harassing, or invasive of the privacy of others, and prohibits illegal use. Separately, the app is collecting IP addresses — personal data under UK GDPR — from people who have had no notice and given no consent, and the operator is publishing that data. Given PythonAnywhere LLP is a UK entity I assumed that aspect would be of interest to you independently of the harassment.
To be clear about the actual risk: the script itself is trivial, and he plainly doesn't understand what a geolocation lookup does or doesn't tell him. The problem is that he is naming specific houses as belonging to a paedophile, live, to an audience. Those houses have nothing to do with anything. It would not take much for somebody at one of those addresses to get hurt.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4uunzq3ne2bz46qjxzy4rzcv/bafkreidcdufbaqgv5u2rl35betrvn5kig43ygbzukn7ehnkyics7qm5vta)
![To: conduct@twitch.tv
Category: Harassment — Sharing personally identifiable information
Channel: twitch.tv/[REDACTED]
I'm reporting a channel that is repeatedly publishing viewers' IP addresses on stream and using them to display specific residential addresses on screen, alongside accusations that the occupants are paedophiles.
Specific instances:
- VOD https://www.twitch.tv/videos/[REDACTED] at 00:06:29 — reads an IP address aloud, states the person who clicked his link is a paedophile, then runs the address through a geolocation lookup and displays a residential property on Google Maps, telling viewers he has identified where that person lives.
- additional VOD with further accusations of paedophilia towards random trans people: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/[REDACTED]
In addition, he has posted many IP addresses on his Bluesky account that has subsequently been banned and squatted.
The addresses displayed are the results of IP geolocation, which does not identify a household. The properties shown on stream belong to people with no connection to any of this, and are being named to a live audience as the homes of child sex offenders. That is the specific harm I'm reporting: it would not take much for someone at one of those addresses to be hurt.
Under your Community Guidelines this is sharing personally identifiable information, specifically location, combined with targeted harassment. The targets appear to be selected largely for being LGBTQ+.
Context on where the data comes from, for completeness rather than as part of this report: he distributes a link disguised as a link to his own Twitch channel, which actually resolves to an IP-logging script. Visitors get no notice. I have reported the script and the page hosting it to those providers separately; the on-platform conduct above is what I'm asking Twitch to act on.
Archived copies of everything cited are available on request.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4uunzq3ne2bz46qjxzy4rzcv/bafkreifxorfm4ol2gxpyb37qs7a2xpu42jdg3yhjutnwazh6nt2kpvzye4)
