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 video games, soccer, politics, formula 1, computational physics, engineering, 3D animation, movies, television... and also gambling and chance games. Yes, those old slot machines in the bars that used to take the money of those who were eager to get a prize at any price.
Twitch is flooded with chance
At the moment we cannot say that this fashion of issue games of 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 seriousness that come to alert us that things could get even worse... so the most sensible thing to do is to limit or mark the rules of how that activity can be developed from now on.
They have been streamers twitch important such as 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 gambling, even taking a risk with 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 (surely) no one at Twitch thought their platform would serve.
But the 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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Both in the case of Pokimane and in that of Devin Nash or Mizkif, have proposed to the community to carry out a Twitch blackout to force the platform to rule on the existence of these direct ones based on gambling and betting and to tell what it plans to do with them, whether to prohibit or regulate them in any way so that they have special identification and notices to users spectators of the serious risks they might run.
This covert strike of streamers would take place during the Christmas period, it is not known if the entire week of celebrations (in the Anglo-Saxon world) or if something more limited since they are dates in which many hours of live streaming are consumed by young people who are on those vacation days.
But the ultimate goal is clear: impact twitch ad accounts so that they decide to act in a type of direct that right now lives in a legal limbo and that, let's remember, in Spain they would be subject to the Gambling Law that has been approved these days and that is very strict in terms of access to less it means. And right now the Amazon application has no way of verifying the age of its users..ac.