Live-video platform Twitch decided to take legal action against trolls who attacked the site last month, on May 25. Anonymous streamers used the site to broadcast violence and pornography.

They did so by exploiting the category for Artifact, the DotA 2 card game, to display and spread the videos. The content uploaded included a broadcast of the March massacre in Christchurch, New Zealand, which left 51 people dead and another 49 injured. The incident even involved the name of PewDiePie.

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Twitch said it worked as hard as possible to ban the accounts and remove the offensive content from the site, but the material quickly reappeared after being removed, leading the company to believe bots might be involved. Some bots sought to upload the content as quickly as possible, while others tried to spread it to a huge number of people. The platform was then forced to temporarily prevent new creators from streaming while it resolved the problem.

Thelawsuit, filed in the San Francisco district in the United States, seeks damages caused by the trolls' attack—although everything depends on whether Twitch can discover the identities of those involved. That is, if the platform can identify them. "The safety of the Twitch community is its highest priority," the company states in the lawsuit. The trolls were identified in the complaint as "100 John and Jane Does."

The safety of the Twitch community is the top priority.

"The safety of the Twitch community is the top priority. For that reason, Twitch prohibits obscene material as well as graphic displays of violence and threats. Its terms of service prohibit users from creating, uploading, or broadcasting any content that is unlawful, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, threatening, abusive, or objectionable," the lawsuit clarifies.

We take these violations extremely seriously.

"We take these violations extremely seriously," site representatives explained in a statement. "We are looking for ways to identify these bad actors, and we will take the appropriate steps to protect our community."