While Twitch, the most popular live broadcasting platform, continues to move away from its game-oriented roots, it was back on the agenda with a long-standing debate the other day. World-renowned publishers announced that they had been defrauded by another publisher with the ‘needy’ lie, and the money the publishers gave to this person went to gambling.
Thereupon, many broadcasters, including broadcasters who have not been silent before, have made a call against Twitch: Stop the gambling! While it was expected that there would be no response from the Twitch front to that call, there was a surprise today. Twitch announced that it banned gambling in its announcement shared on social media. Of course, this ban was a partial ban…
Description shared by Twitch:
“Gambling content on Twitch is a topic of great discussion in the community and one we are actively reviewing. Today we would like to inform you about our plans. While we prohibit the sharing of links or referral codes to any site containing slots, roulette or dice games, we have seen some people break these rules and expose our community to potential harm.
We will be making a policy update on October 18 to prohibit the streaming of gambling sites that contain slots, roulette or dice games that are not licensed in the US or other jurisdictions that provide adequate consumer protection. These sites will include Stake, Rollbit, Duelbits and Roobet. However, we can identify others as we progress.
We will continue to allow websites that focus on sports betting, fantasy sports and poker.
We’ll be sharing details on updates to our Gambling policy soon, including the full policy language, to make sure everyone is clear about our new rules before they go into effect on October 18.”
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