Twitch gambling ban announced for certain content following streamer theft – Top Class Actions

Twitch gambing ban overview:

Twitch announced that it will ban certain gambling content from appearing on its live-streaming service, including gambling websites that have slots, roulette or dice games that arent licensed in the United States

The policy update will take place on Oct. 18 and is being made following an effort by some people to circumvent rules currently in place regarding gambling content to expose our community to potential harm, according to Twitch.

The company, which is owned by Amazon.com, enacted the Twitch gambling ban amidst a slew of criticism from some of its top streamers who had been threatening to leave the platform if it didnt change its gambling stream policy, CNBC reports.

The reported boycott threat came after a streamer with the moniker Sliker allegedly misled viewers and other streamers who gave him as much as $200,000 to gamble with, Kotaku reports.

Twitch, which already prohibits link or referral code sharing from sites featuring slots, roulette or dice games, says that the streaming of gambling websites Rollbit.com, Stake.com, Duelbits.com and Roobets.com will no longer be allowed on the platform.

Streamers will still be able to host streams of websites that focus on sports betting, poker and fantasy sports, however, according to Twitch.

Gambling content on Twitch has been a big topic of discussion in the community and something weve been actively reviewing since our last policy update in this area, Twitch says in a statement posted to Twitter.

Last October, Twitch announced that it suffered a major data breach that led to an anonymous hacker posting 125gb of its data, including source code, to the anonymous online image board website 4chan.

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