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

Re:Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs... by shadowfox on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @05:27PM (#26731595)

How different is that from at-will employment though? You can be fired at any time and for more or less any non-federally-protected reason (and can quit any time too). That seems pretty uncontroversial in the US at least.

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Re:Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs... by enjoythecode on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @05:44PM (#26731763)

There are thousands of other employers you can apply to and work for. You'll be unemployed in the short term, but getting fired isn't catastrophic long-term, for the most part.

The parallel doesn't really exist for Twitch. Other than perhaps YouTube, are there any platforms that would get you anywhere close to the pool of potential users on Twitch?

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Re:Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs... by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @05:55PM (#26731896)

It's a good thing that there are 10.75 million employers in the United States.

It has a little something for everyone.

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Re:Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs... by madeofpalk on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @06:31PM (#26732330)

Twitch has reasonable competition - YouTube and to a significantly lesser extent Facebook Gaming.

But let’s take a step back here - no one is entitled to be a Full time professional streamer. Say you do something egregious (or not) and get banned from all streaming sites - just go get another job? Twitch doesn’t have a monopoly on employment.

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Re:Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs... by devit on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @05:40PM (#26731720)

In most cases there are multiple employers for any job who pay similar wages so one can go work for some other employer if one fires them.

But in the Twitch, YouTube, Amazon, etc. cases there is no other platform that pays the same.

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Re:Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs... by bilbo0s on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @05:50PM (#26731833)

But in the Twitch, YouTube, Amazon, etc. cases there is no other platform that pays the same.

Did you not just enumerate 3 different organizations in your comment?

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Re:Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs... by gh-throw on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @05:56PM (#26731905)

For three different “jobs”, though.

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Re:Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs... by bilbo0s on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @05:58PM (#26731935)

I don't know man?

Do "Twitch Streamer" and "YouTube Streamer" really constitute different "jobs"?

(I mean, to the extent that they are "jobs" at all, I consider them the same "job".)

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Re:Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs... by gh-throw on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @06:07PM (#26732044)

Amazon: author

YouTube: Youtuber

Twitch (as discussed elsewhere in the thread): eSports tournament competitors

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