After weeks of discussions about gambling on Twitch, the platform is banning several sites that encourage “slots, roulette, or dice games” next month.
Twitch’s slots category, in particular, has been overflowing with gambling content for ages. People have been calling for Twitch to do something about it for quite some time, especially since so many kids below 21 years of age frequent the platform.
However, this past weekend, it all came to a head when a streamer named Abraham ‘Sliker’ Mohammed scammed fans out of $200,000. Afterward, many high-profile content creators like Imane ‘Pokimane’ Anys called for removing all gambling channels on Twitch.
On Tuesday, Twitch announced a major policy update that addresses gambling sites on the platform.
“We’ll be making a policy update on [Oct. 18, 2022] to prohibit streaming of gambling sites that include slots, roulette, or dice games that aren’t licensed either in the U.S. or other jurisdictions that provide sufficient consumer protection,” Twitch said on Twitter. “These sites will include Stake.com, Rollbit.com, Duelbits.com, and Roobet.com.”
Twitch also claims it’s working to identify more gambling websites from the platform, so more bans are likely coming. There’ll be more policy updates coming in the next few weeks as well, though Twitch didn’t specify what those might entail.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.
