There is no set percentage, but if the decision makers at Twitch don't represent society, there is nothing stopping a Twitch competitor from sprouting up that is more in line with society's morals.
I'd submit for your consideration that there's quite a lot stopping someone from just starting a twitch competitor.
Even beyond the tech challenges, there are thousands of posts out there describing the network effect and trend towards winner-takes-all in a given social networking market.
I'm honestly curious about the mindset that leads one to just say 'nothing stopping you, make your own twitch, no biggie'. Is it lack of sympathy for those cast out? Idealistic belief in free markets and meritocracy? Genuine belief that it's easy? What's the underlying angle?
Remember your hypothetical started with Twitch's morals being out of line with society's morals. That represents a huge demand for a competitor.
I would compare it to when Reddit started cracking down on immoral content. That created demand of competitors. Multiple ones popped up. However they weren't able to sustain themselves or grow demand because society was on Reddit's side and not the side of Voat and the like.
The reason it is currently difficult for Twitch competitor to gain traction is because people are largely fine with Twitch. Even so, there are still plenty of other streaming options including those with sizable userbases even if they are targeting different market segments like Facebook and Youtube.
Now you're moving the goal posts from "able to broadcast yourself" to "starting a twitch competitor.
Then you're moving the goal posts from "streaming yourself" to "reaching as many people as possible and/or making the most money from it".
You can say what you want on the internet, but people don't have to listen and companies don't have to broadcast you, promote you or pay you.
Alex Jones still does his show, but if you accuse the victims of a mass shooting of being actors in a conspiracy for gun control, you might not get to have people subscribe to you on youtube.
I didn't open up the "just go start your own twitch" line, I was responding to someone.
> You can say what you want on the internet, but people don't have to listen and companies don't have to broadcast you, promote you or pay you.
That sounds good in a vacuum, but what about when it's a handful of companies doing all of the broadcasting? If this were the internet of the 2000s, with a widely distributed network of self-hosted blogs and BBs, I'd be right there with you, but that's not where we're at.
Alex Jones is big enough to bring his noxious show anywhere. What about the little guy? What if it's the historically persecuted who continue to be persecuted when this all shakes out?
> That sounds good in a vacuum, but what about when it's a handful of companies doing all of the broadcasting?
... are there not enough giant companies doing this thing that didn't exist a few years ago?
You realize you can pay for a VPS for $10 a month and broadcast to hundreds of people right?
> If this were the internet of the 2000s, with a widely distributed network of self-hosted blogs and BBs
Pretty sure all that stuff can still be done. Do you not realize you can rent a server and buy your own domain name? You can even rent a VPS with 40 gigabit internet and 10 terabytes of upload for around $20 a month.
> What about the little guy? What if it's the historically persecuted who continue to be persecuted when this all shakes out?
Lol, who are the historically persecuted that aren't able to stream video games because they can't help but violate twitch's TOS. I have a hard time believing this is even a serious conversation.
