Twitch To Ban Gambling Streaming By October 18th.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

Today, Twitch took to their verified Twitter account to announce that they will be banning gambling streaming in their platform by October 18th this year, - this is less than a month from today.
In their announcement, they said the banned gambling sites will include stake.com, Rollbit.com, Duelbits.com, Roobet.com etc.
They said that they will identify other gambling platforms and ban them too as the move forward.

See the announcement below.




Link to the official announcement
Link to publish news: https://remitano.com/home/ng/post/105248-twitch-to-ban-crypto-gambling-livestreams-after-backlash-from-influencers

What do you guys think of this development?
According to the published article, the reason for the ban is due to backlash they(Twitch) received from influencers.

Do you think backlash received from influencers is enough reason for Twitch to ban gambling streaming on their platform?

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[ryzaadit]

I guess yes.

Also, with the case of "Slick" who dm every Influencer to borrow money for gambling is make the case more worst. I read the part "License", If we got license on every jurisdiction that's mean we can stream?

We all-know, stake is opening a site for US. But still, to get an approved from twitch "How the casino, can applied for that".s

[Cryptomultiplier]

Today, Twitch took to their verified Twitter account to announce that they will be banning gambling streaming in their platform by October 18th this year, - this is less than a month from today.
In their announcement, they said the banned gambling sites will include stake.com, Rollbit.com, Duelbits.com, Roobet.com etc.
They said that they will identify other gambling platforms and ban them too as the move forward.

See the announcement below.




Link to the official announcement
Link to publish news: https://remitano.com/home/ng/post/105248-twitch-to-ban-crypto-gambling-livestreams-after-backlash-from-influencers

What do you guys think of this development?
According to the published article, the reason for the ban is due to backlash they(Twitch) received from influencers.

Do you think backlash received from influencers is enough reason for Twitch to ban gambling streaming on their platform?

According to
https://www.thegamer.com/twitch-ban-gambling-sites-october-18/

 the reason why influencers are instigating the ban is due to the fact that scammers have taken hold of the streaming platform. I know its a recent online streaming platform, unlike most other existent platforms, and with a rather porous security system, it is a sure haven for scammers to grab their bite off those unsuspecting of their ploy.
This however, is a scare notice for online users to be wary of the modus operandi of how online scammers operate and also to those who use unlicensed gaming sites.

[Findingnemo]

Yes, probably the company thinks that these influencers can taint their platform among the users which is going to affect the platform so probably they are banning it and maybe government also can be the reason. But why not sport betting and poker which I don't understand?

[Punt.com]

This should be interesting...

[jackg]

We all-know, stake is opening a site for US. But still, to get an approved from twitch "How the casino, can applied for that".s

There were in the news half a year ago for getting a license in the UK. I wonder how protections differ for gamblers between the US and UK - I thought they were both bad?

This should be interesting...

I wonder if they'll turn to YouTube or if there's another streaming service (tiktok perhaps)?

Either that or a company formally regulated in the US might just buy a few streams for itself or open up some - that seems like a good way to go about this unless it could be seen as negative press (but that could be spinned too).

[babygun]

That is going to hurt a lot of people as some were making real good money on Twitch. I am thinking of popular streamers as Xposed, Ayezee, Foss, ... They also stream on Youtube but the go platform has always been Twitch.

[Saint-loup]

Yes, probably the company thinks that these influencers can taint their platform among the users which is going to affect the platform so probably they are banning it and maybe government also can be the reason. But why not sport betting and poker which I don't understand?

Because winnings are not so instant in those games IMO. You need to think, you have to use your brain in order to win in those games, you can't win x1000 (for the slots) or x36 for the roulette in few seconds by just clicking one button.
I don't really understand why they have banned dice games and not Blackjack, Baccarat, Andar Bahar, Teen Patti and any casino card games but gambling streamers will maybe turn themselves toward these games to continue their gambling streams.

[crwth]

They probably can't control it or something. Upon reading the article, it's about the crypto wagering problem that occurs with streamers. They have probably built something already and would move to a new platform. I think that's what's going to happen. They wouldn't have an enormous backlash since most users there aren't for gambling slots, but games.

[UpAgain]

All these gambling sites can die. Imagine if youtube ban ads they don't have as many as  visitors. as now.

[Fortify]

Today, Twitch took to their verified Twitter account to announce that they will be banning gambling streaming in their platform by October 18th this year, - this is less than a month from today.
In their announcement, they said the banned gambling sites will include stake.com, Rollbit.com, Duelbits.com, Roobet.com etc.
They said that they will identify other gambling platforms and ban them too as the move forward.

Link to the official announcement
Link to publish news: https://remitano.com/home/ng/post/105248-twitch-to-ban-crypto-gambling-livestreams-after-backlash-from-influencers

What do you guys think of this development?
According to the published article, the reason for the ban is due to backlash they(Twitch) received from influencers.

Do you think backlash received from influencers is enough reason for Twitch to ban gambling streaming on their platform?

That is a pretty big development from them and it did seem like the gambling section had exploded lately with these activities. It makes sense really because there is no skill involved in these type of platforms and the outcomes are all predefined statistically speaking. Twitch was also opening itself up to all sorts of pressure from regulators in various countries because they have such a young viewership and could potentially have been the subject of fines or more. You could tell that all of those casinos were constantly pushing the limits of what would be allowed and it's rare to find streamers who will actively admit to their privately orchestrated advertising deals.

[acroman08]

I guess I was partially wrong on what I said on the other thread regarding twitch not banning gambling streaming content.

anyway, just to be clear, they are banning streaming content from gambling sites that do not have US license? but would also allow content from gambling sites to stream sports betting content and poker as long as they focus on those fields despite not having a US license?

[lionheart78]

Pretty much devastating for the gambling streamer who had established their stronghold on Twitch, on the contrary, this is an opportunity for other streaming platforms to accommodate these gambling streamers, especially the newly established one.

The negative impact does affect both parties but of course, it is greater on the steamer.  I guess once this banned is implemented, most of these streamer will use youtube more.

All these gambling sites can die. Imagine if youtube ban ads they don't have as many as  visitors. as now.

Or it can make way for new streaming platforms to rise.  These streamers will look for an alternative since streaming is their bread and butter.  These affected streamers will definitely announce where will be their next platform once gambling streaming is banned in twitch.

[stomachgrowls]

I guess I was partially wrong on what I said on the other thread regarding twitch not banning gambling streaming content.

anyway, just to be clear, they are banning streaming content from gambling sites that do not have US license? but would also allow content from gambling sites to stream sports betting content and poker as long as they focus on those fields despite not having a US license?

It wasnt clarified if this would be a total or global ban without any exemptions whether about having that US license or not.I do remember out about that topic if Twitch is doing the right thing of allowing gambling

and as i responded also into that thread that it would really be depending on the situation if there are some petitions and huge number of complaints or against with it then Twitch might consider it.

And now they are really indeed doing it which i could say that it would really hurt those streamers or influencers who do make huge money out on using up this platform.
Normally they would be finding another place which they could stream on.

[cabron]

Pretty much devastating for the gambling streamer who had established their stronghold on Twitch, on the contrary, this is an opportunity for other streaming platforms to accommodate these gambling streamers, especially the newly established one.

The negative impact does affect both parties but of course, it is greater on the steamer.  I guess once this banned is implemented, most of these streamer will use youtube more.

All these gambling sites can die. Imagine if youtube ban ads they don't have as many as  visitors. as now.

Or it can make way for new streaming platforms to rise.  These streamers will look for an alternative since streaming is their bread and butter.  These affected streamers will definitely announce where will be their next platform once gambling streaming is banned in twitch.

The streamers will be back, they only try to ban slots, roulette and dice aren't licensed in US. Sooner they'd be promoting websites with .US extension and will continue doing fine again.

Why not banning in impromptu is for streamers to divert its users to other websites, maybe Rumble.com that's another streaming service and uncensored as well.

[Captain Corporate]

It is %100 understandable, there are little kids there and I wouldn't want them to watch gambling at all, I even suggested gore included games should be considered with some age notification, doesn't mean kids will follow but at least it should ask "are you over 18" type of deal. There are games where you decapitate other people, zombies, monsters, blood, murder, and 10 year olds could still watch it. Gambling is a bit older stuff, kids at 13-14 or a bit higher could watch it and could actually get their hands on some money or even their parents money and end up gambling because their favorite streamer does, and thats very risky.

[South Park]

What do you guys think of this development?
According to the published article, the reason for the ban is due to backlash they(Twitch) received from influencers.

Do you think backlash received from influencers is enough reason for Twitch to ban gambling streaming on their platform?

I am skeptical that is the real reason, to me what it is really happening is that they are afraid they are going to get sued by the people that are losing money when they gamble, after all we have talked about this in the forum before and at least to me it seemed as if some or even the majority of those streaming about their gambling journeys were lying to their viewers by making it seem as if it was really easy to become profitable, something we know it is not possible in the majority of the gambling games.

[notblox1]

Do you think backlash received from influencers is enough reason for Twitch to ban gambling streaming on their platform?

I think Twitch is starting some kind of weird crusade against gambling websites, but I was never really a fun of twitch anyway so I don't care about this.
There are probably alternatives for Twitch maybe even blockchain based, but gambling websites could be affected by this cutting of promotional stream.
Maybe DLive could be alternative for Twitch, it's blockchain based and used by gamers and gamblers, I think I saw Stake giveaways there.
https://dlive.tv/

[goaldigger]

What do you guys think of this development?
According to the published article, the reason for the ban is due to backlash they(Twitch) received from influencers.

Do you think backlash received from influencers is enough reason for Twitch to ban gambling streaming on their platform?

That’s enough reason to restrict those streamers because probably, this can ruin the reputation of the platform if they continue to allow it. Twitch should be more strict with this since this is gambling and we know how risky it is and many will expose to that, so if there’s any misinformation or spreading too much hype probably viewers will be affected by this.

[DoublerHunter]

What do you guys think of this development?
According to the published article, the reason for the ban is due to backlash they(Twitch) received from influencers.

Do you think backlash received from influencers is enough reason for Twitch to ban gambling streaming on their platform?

That’s enough reason to restrict those streamers because probably, this can ruin the reputation of the platform if they continue to allow it. Twitch should be more strict with this since this is gambling and we know how risky it is and many will expose to that, so if there’s any misinformation or spreading too much hype probably viewers will be affected by this.

^ The main reason could be abusing streamers that influence people through their bad streaming style.
Probably because streamers only care for the affiliate program to make money and not the content and probably that could be the reason for banning those gambling platforms there. I know it hurts anyone who relies on that platform, there are a lot of people who will get hurt especially those streamers, and also gambling casinos may reduce their target audience.