Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs away from its site

Re:Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs... by thelean12 on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @02:52PM (#26729268)

I'm not sure why you say "arrived". People have always been fired for arrests at some companies. Twitch is basically their employer, so it's not much different here.

Whether it should be allowed or not by law can be a different discussion, but we don't have to pretend that this is new

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Re:Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs... by madamelic on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @03:00PM (#26729418)

>Twitch is basically their employer, so it's not much different here.

Oh awesome. I am sure Twitch streamers are looking forward to guaranteed minimum wage, paid time-off, health insurance, etc.

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Re:Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs... by thelean12 on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @03:04PM (#26729474)

What's your point? Does it change my point if they're considered contractors vs employees vs hobbyists vs whatever?

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Re:Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs... by anoncake on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @04:07PM (#26730461)

Since your point is that "Twitch is basically their employer", whether they're basically employees is relevant.

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Re:Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs... by thelean12 on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @05:10PM (#26731346)

Anyone with substantial following, who would be most likely to get snitched on with this new policy, will be making money from twitch.

It doesn't matter to me how you categorize that relationship, my point is valid. "Basically employees" was a plenty fine layman's categorization, though. We aren't lawyers here.

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Re:Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs... by ipaddr on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @04:08PM (#26730468)

Twitch is not their employer. Twitch collects money from them.

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Re:Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs... by vkou on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @04:30PM (#26730786)

Twitch collects money from viewers, and pays money to them.

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Re:Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs... by ipaddr on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @05:07PM (#26731295)

Twitch takes half of the subscription fee. Twitch doesn't employ streamers. Twitch takes platform fees.

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Re:Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs... by thelean12 on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @05:13PM (#26731398)

You are all getting way too caught up in terms. It doesn't matter.

A company firing an employee for getting arrested is a very close situation to Twitch "firing" a streamer for getting arrested.

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Re:Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs... by ipaddr on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @08:39PM (#26733618)

You can't fire a user. You can kick them off your platform.

If I say come drink from my waterhose. At some point I dislike you and I say you can't drink here. You can't fire them.

If google disables your email you didn't get fired you were kicked off the platform.

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Re:Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs... by thelean12 on Thursday April 08, 2021 @01:47PM (#26741679)

Did you miss my quotations? I said "fire" in quotations, obviously not meant to be taken literally.

And it's not quite like that. It's if someone comes up to you and says "Hey I can get a bunch of people to come and drink from your water hose. If I get enough can you pay me?" And then they get arrested for murder and you think maybe they should stop.

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Re:Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs... by bluefirebrand on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @04:31PM (#26730801)

Twitch is closer to being their pimp than their employer.

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