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I don't understand what's the problem with not watching what you don't like? These modern trends to ban everything are just awful. I remember the times when twitch streaming was fun and you could hear funny jokes on any topic. Now this is all banned and if the streamer did not have time to say "I condemn" in time, he can be banned even for a joke in the chat that has nothing to do with him. We are getting closer to a dystopia, and as I see it, you rejoice in this? Terrible.

Firstly, I would like to say that I mostly agree with you when you talk about how Terms of services of social media have become so strict that people can easily get banned by using some words or expressing their honest opinion. I recall, back in the day when Twitch and Youtube did not mind if users stuck to political correctness, it was a good to be part of that era, that being said, gambling is something different from those things, we are talking about a platform that is frequented by a lot of children and teens which could start gambling because their favorite influencer does it and they believe it to be "cool", and while they are kids and teens who understand they should not gamble, there are others who could start a gambling career too early in their lifes.

If Twitch wants to keep those gambling streams then it would be fine, but they should also restrict that content to people over 18 or 16 years old, somehow.

Twitch came so late to take such initiative which became a big obstacle in the gaming promotion. However, they have certainly tried to raise some complaints behind their decision. Where they mentioned. The links and referral codes of the gambling sites are variously becoming harmful to their communities. Which are broken their rules. Here they have also mentioned some gambling sites. But I agree with you that minors should be restricted.

I wouldn't say that they are late, it's just the backlash that they got recently that they to make actions on it otherwise it will grow and could be out of hand for them.

Yes, it could be harmful to many, but then again, you can't please everyone as they say. There are a lot of social media platforms such as youtube who inadvertently advertised gambling, but they are very fast to react and take down that challenge. Twitch do is very different, it's a live stream so they have a team to watch which streamers are posting gambling and what not, so it's a infrastructure nightmare.