Twitch has been growing since the arrival of the pandemic in March 2020 at an extraordinary rate and has become a new television channel where we can enjoy videogames, football, politics, formula 1, computational physics, engineering, 3D animation, cinema, television… and also betting and chance games. Yes, those old bar slots that used to take the money of those who are eager to get a prize at any price.
Twitch is flooded with chance
At the moment we cannot say this fashion of broadcasting games of chance or bets is collapsing the platform of retransmission owned by Amazon because it is not like that, but it is true that there have already been a series of cases of a certain gravity that come to alert us that things could get even worse… so the most sensible thing is to limit or mark the rules of how that activity can be carried out from now on.
Have been streamers Twitch stars like Imane ‘Pokimane’ Anys and Matthew ‘Mizkif’ Rinaudo who they have asked the platform to take action on the matter of gambling broadcasts where the streamer (in many cases) encourages the game, even risks his own money in front of the viewers and sometimes some types of live betting are organized in what is an activity for the that (probably) no one on Twitch thought their platform would do.
But the voice of alarm has been raised after learning that some streamers had publicly confessed to having used the money earned (and requested) through viewers to pay for their addiction problems. This is the case of Félix ‘xQc’ Lengyel or ‘Ludwig’ Anders Ahgren, who have already revealed their intention to do everything possible to “return the money to those people” who, technically, we could say were scammed.
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In the case of both Pokimane and Devin Nash or Mizkif, have proposed to the community to carry out a blackout of Twitch to force the platform to rule on the existence of these direct games based on gambling and betting and to tell what it intends to do with them, whether to ban them or regulate them in some way so that they have a special identification and notices to users. viewers of the serious risks they could take.
This covert strike of streamers would take place during the Christmas period, it is not known if the whole week of celebrations (in the Anglo-Saxon world) or if something more limited since they are dates in which many hours of direct are consumed by young people who are on those vacation days.
But the ultimate goal is clear: impact Twitch ad accounts so that it decides to act in a type of live show that right now lives in a legal limbo and that, let us remember, in Spain would be subject to the Gambling Law that has been approved these days and that is very strict in what access to less it means. And right now the Amazon app has no way of verifying the age of its users..ac.
