Sure, these don't have anywhere near the same reach when it comes to live streaming but people have been banned from twitch before and maintained an audience on other sites like these. There's also no "right to livestream".
We'll see how liberally twitch applies this new policy. All sites are literally allowed to do these things already, the only difference is they made it explicit. You can have a "common carrier" argument about regulation of private companies, but there's nothing in this announcement itself that makes twitch any different from others.
Sure, these don't have anywhere near the same reach when it comes to live streaming but people have been banned from twitch before and maintained an audience on other sites like these. There's also no "right to livestream".
We'll see how liberally twitch applies this new policy. All sites are literally allowed to do these things already, the only difference is they made it explicit. You can have a "common carrier" argument about regulation of private companies, but there's nothing in this announcement itself that makes twitch any different from others.