Twitch gambling ban announced for certain content following streamer theft

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Twitch gambing ban overview: 

• Who: Live streaming platform Twitch announced that it will update its policy on gambling content to prohibit streaming gambling websites that have slots, roulette or dice games that are not licensed in the United States
• Why: The policy update comes after a Twitch streamer allegedly tricked viewers and other streamers into giving him as much as $200,000 to gamble with. 
• Where: Twitch is a live-streaming service used by consumers nationwide. 

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 aren’t 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 didn’t 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 gambling ban includes several popular websites

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 we’ve 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. 

Do you use Twitch to view or stream online gambling content? Let us know in the comments! 

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