Topic: Twitch To Ban Gambling Streaming By October 18th. - page 13. (Read 3511 times)

Well, well, well. That's interesting. Twitch was one of the best platforms for gambling streamers. Gamblers also love to watch gambling streams on twitch. As we know, Gamblers get paid from the casinos to do the stream for their platform and get some referrals. Twitch gambling streamers used to make money by streaming casinos. Let's see if they prohibit gambling streams. It will be a piece of unfortunate news for both casinos and streamers.

Maybe twitch is just eliminating things which they think they don't need or have issues that's why they don't give to much weights on curacao registered based casino since they think that this is the nest of scammers. I think they are doing what they think right in terms of costumer protection since sometimes crypto casino streamers always hype up their viewers and spreading false information towards the casino they are promoting on.

It seems to me that such advertising bans are due to the fact that the usa government has begun to somehow more actively and harshly apply regulation. For many years, the legislator has not been able to figure out how to deal with cryptocurrency in general throughout the world. Different countries approach differently, but still focus on US law. It is also worth adding that the online crypto-casino industry is also poorly regulated by law. So I think that finally the US government decided on more stringent regulation. Even now is a very opportune moment because the cryptocurrency market is completely calm and very low activity. Such a time is well suited for the adoption of strict regulations by laws.

This isn't about gambling in general. This is apparently about crypto gambling. There is actually no ban against gambling streaming on Twitch. What is there is a ban on certain gambling platforms and there must be a reason why crypto platforms are specifically targeted.

Just recently, there was a backlash on Twitch against its gambling policies. This is the result. The response of Twitch isn't a ban on gambling but a ban on sites that aren't registered in the US "or other jurisdictions that provide sufficient consumer protection." The latter part makes everything subjective from their end.

But as most crypto platforms including those specifically mentioned in its post are Curacao-licensed, it is clear that Twitch doesn't give much value to such licenses at least in terms of consumer protection.

That is a pretty big development for the gambling streamers who rely on Twitch to make money. With less than a month that is going to create a lot of problems. I don't like that Twitch seems to be controlled by the influencers and they can decide what should be streamed and what not? So it's fine for 12 year old kids to see girls in bikinis all day on twitch and donate money to them, but it's not okay for adults to watch gambling online?

At least some parts of gambling like Sports betting and Poker is still allowed. Personally I rarely watch Twitch, because it seems like a waste of time to me. Why spend time watching someone else make money online, when I could use the time and gamble myself? In the past I used to follow a few poker players on Twitch, but now I prefer to play myself than watch them. Same goes for the whole gaming community, I understand that many people enjoy the chat interaction but I would prefer to control my own character than to watch someone else do it. I am not so familiar with the whole streaming area, I know that Mixer from Microsoft failed back in 2020 and since then I didn't hear much about a big competition for Twitch. But maybe there are different streaming platforms. Also it seems that streaming gambling for casinos that are licensed in the USA seems okay, that is a one sided.

As I see it this is not a full ban, they are aiming just for casinos "that arent' licensed either in the US or other jurisdictions that provide sufficient consumer protection". I guess some crypto casinos started drawing some serious attention and they decided to hold them like this, but as you say there are alternatives that will come to light... I didn't see that DLive.tv yet, I will check it for sure to see how it looks, but I guess there are more similar popping out around.

So, we have seen what happens when large social media platforms ban something....

A lot of alternative sites will step in to fill the void that those bans created and they will grow as strong opposition to those social media giants. We already saw how the co-owner of Stake.com (Eddie) got banned on Twitch and he simply moved to DLive.tv and now he has almost 14 000+ people watching his streaming sessions.

Eddie even said, Stake.com might consider buying DLive.tv and that they will develop it into something huge! 

Yeah it could be problem for them as they were sponsored gamblers from different casinos to stream and attract more customers to their site giving away promo codes as well but I think they will find some more decentralised platforms where they can stream gambling without any difficulty as Twitch wouldn't support them due to their reasoning of this ban.

is this just a beginning of the movement against gambling online from those scammers and cheaters action towards the community ? there are too much abusing and too much happening for years now and Twitch just act for the betterment?
who will follow and what will be the effect in gambling businesses? this are the main concern that I think need to be addressed.

Pretty big.

I think there is a trend whereby more and more gambling ads are going to be banned around the world. In this particular case, the consequence may be that banned streamers may look for other means to continue working, but being online gambling addiction one of the fastest growing addictions and serious problems nowadays, I believe that regulations will tend to prohibit advertising it.

But this is what they must do if they will retain their reputation because I believe that their site had been abused by streamers that supports scam gambling site.
though this is not only happening in Gambling business instead in all ways that to cheat people.
they will always find home to cheat , but the good thing here is that twitch now proven that they can do action to refuse the use of each platform for cheating.

it is their rights if they think that the platform had been abused and the blame is taking in their part as they are allowing those scammers and abusers using their platform , this also proves that twitch is there to listen and willing to do anything to hold the reputation of their Site in which made me salute them , imagine if all the businesses only will take this same action? it will lessen the chance of scammers abusing other people.

We guess that the government receives complaints from many people who do not want to see some family ruins because of playing gambling without responsibility.
But as @coolcoinz said, that will not stop gamblers and streamers from creating content about gambling because many other sources can still accommodate it.
It is like a war between the good and the evil because the government wants to protect their people from the danger of playing gambling
But whether they will play gambling will depend on how they can be responsible for what they do so they do not get a bad impact from gambling.

Yup they are also going to move to Dlive. Seem a pushover CEO. The decision will result in Twitch losing users instead at the early stage of the competition.  There are many platforms to move to which they have not considered before making this ban. Youtube had removed some videos actually but they didn't ban those gambling streamers promoting casinos. If the streamers kept repeating violations probably.

But why just these Bitcoin casinos? Not a single fiat base casino was mantioned.

What do these influencers expect to gain by getting rid of the gambling content on twitch? That the thousands of users whom can no  longer watch streams about gambling will flock back to their streams and buy subs? I seriously doubt that that happens. These users will follow the streamers they were watching to the new platforms they decide to stream on. From the streamers I watch, youtube seems to be the most popular in the discussion. From what I understand, you have some rules to follow on youtbe, but as long as you abide by their rules you will be good to go. Hard to say if Youtube examines their ToS if they see a large influx of gambling streamers on the platform.

Definitely one good reason for Stake to dive into. If they can't just be advertised on one platform because ban, it's time for them to also have thier own and not going to be banning itself. Dlive is not very popular to regular internet users, however.  This will make probably make them advertise Dlive as well not just the casino.

Amazing how influencers today can affect CEO's decision.

I don't see it's about banning gambling streamers but it about going against crypto casinos. Obviously platform like Google and other giants (I guess Twitch is only a small one so far) don't want crypto to have establishment of crypto over their government controlled fiat currency.

Most of the time it's the pressure from government agencies and these companies are just saving their business so that they can survive.

Stake is trying to buy Dlive from what I heard Eddie say on his weekend stream. If that happens, then Stake streamers will have a home. I wonder if they will allow competitors to stream as well? Buying the platform would be 1 way to monopolize the market, at least on that particular platform.

Twitch was also making money through them. More traffic, more donations, more bits bought and so on...

They're cutting their own revenue for nothing because it's not like they're against gambling since they're allowing other forms of gambling like sport bets and people are just going to move somewhere else.

It's not going to stop gamblers and it's not going to stop streamers. Pretty pointless if you ask me.

They cannot handle the pressure this is a big decision that will have an impact on the share of the market among streaming platforms, gambling streamers will have Youtube for now, but it's only gambling streaming that is banned, they overlooked the contribution of streamers and their followers on their platform and instead opted to take drastic action on the complaints I hope streamers will comply and behave on other streaming platforms, they have revenues to protect and they have followers to feed with their live streams.