I guess I can weigh in here since I am an HR Manager - if one employee said this to another employee, I don't think you could consider it harassment. Inappropriate conduct in the workplace, sure, and they would be written up for it, but that is about as far as it goes.
There is nothing that was said about Dougie that crosses the line into the protected grounds, there is no repeated incidents or attacks on him. It really falls short of what we would consider to be harassment.
You would have to take into account the public nature of the stream, but if "Mr. Flames" didn't know he was being recorded and didn't do this deliberately or maliciously, I don't think you would have much of a case against him.
If SNET wanted to fire him, they would have a much stronger case for letting him go because of the damage he has done to their brand rather than the "harassment".
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