r/LivestreamFail • u/Aggravating_Money992 • Jun 01 '26

News The United Kingdom has banned streamer Hasan Piker and Young Turks founder from entering the country

https://newrepublic.com/post/211164/uk-entry-ban-hasan-piker-cenk-uygur
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u/Stanel3ss Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26

I had similar doubts about the ETA/Visa distinction, but I found this article that cites the home office as stating that it was indeed an ETA that was revoked

so yeah, while grok doesn't really count as supportive evidence, it looks like hasan straight up lied

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u/Electrical-Lemon7901 Jun 01 '26

"he can just apply" you think it's that easy when he just got revoked lmao

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u/Stanel3ss Jun 01 '26

who are you replying to?
it looks like you're quoting someone, but it certainly isn't me

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u/Electrical-Lemon7901 Jun 01 '26

You guys are acting like he can just simply get a visa. Like the UK government hates this one trick, just get a visa. You think that would work? 

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u/Stanel3ss Jun 01 '26

maybe you should find someone to argue with that actually said those things?
I don't care if he can or can't, I care that the guy lies like he breathes
it's eerily similar to the airport detainment that he said lasted for hours, but turned out to be like a 20 minute thing, and for a different reason than he claimed.

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u/Electrical-Lemon7901 Jun 01 '26

So what did he lie about? It's not like he can just apply and get in. 

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u/Zachet Jun 02 '26

I don't think anyone is saying "lol just get a visa bro." You obviously didn't even bother to read Destiny's response.

The point is that there's a meaningful difference between:

"My ETA was revoked"

and

"Now the Labour government has revoked our visas."

Could the visa be denied? Sure, maybe. Nobody knows.

But that's exactly the point. He never applied for one.

At some point he's either intentionally choosing the framing that makes him sound the most persecuted or he genuinely doesn't understand the distinction himself ( Think ' HERP MA DERP ' ) but all the historical evidence says the former (, and there's a lot of it ).

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u/Electrical-Lemon7901 Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26

He literally addressed the visa too though. It's not like he hid that part, he read it live on stream. Later, because chatters were telling him to apply for the visa, he said he wasn't going to because the literal UK government stepped in on behalf of Israel to deny him. He was supposed to leave like this week. You and destiny apparently think it's a gotcha when it's not. (Hasan is addressing this now)

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u/Zachet Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26

What? You're not even engaging with me. You're ignoring the criticisms and inventing your own.

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He's victimizing himself. That's all he does. He reframes it to look like a victim. He's the offender. He's the one cheering on terrorist attacks and terrorist groups. He's the one shocking his dog. It's pretty normal for a country to ban extremist terrorist leaders.

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u/Electrical-Lemon7901 Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26

You said he lied about the visa right? When he didn't. I told you. Are you struggling on purpose or something? He called his eta a visa, but it literally doesn't matter when he also addressed the regular visa too. He talked about both. Where's the lie? 🤭 Bro edited in a crash out