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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




>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.


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


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


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.


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


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


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


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.


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.


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.


Twitch is closer to being their pimp than their employer.




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