The streamer’s retort is subject to debate as it may not be supported by factual evidence from . The current guidelines were updated in October of last year to promote safety and security, as well as to speed up innovation on the platform. Under the “Prohibited Gambling Content” section, the guidelines prohibit the following:
Share a referral code to a slots site with your chat
Include a banner with a link to online roulette games
Verbally refer your chat to a site containing dice games
Furthermore, Twitch does not allow the sites below to be streamed on the platform, or linked to in chat:
stake.com
rollbit.com
duelbits.com
roobet.com
Moving forward, Twitch retains the right to identify other banned websites or associated domains in the future. Whether a website is banned or allowed is determined by a number of perimeters, “including whether the site includes safety protections, such as deposit limits, waiting periods, and age verification systems, [or] whether streamers use or encourage VPNs to evade geoblocking.”
Another important consideration is “whether the site is licensed in the US or other jurisdictions that provide sufficient consumer protections.”
Better known as xQc, Félix Lengyel is a Canadian Twitch streamer and personality.
Blaze is neither one of the listed banned websites, nor an associated domain, keeping Neymar’s betting from being an immediate breach of the guidelines. The next natural step seems to be for Twitch to determine whether Blaze fits the parameters set by the platform’s guidelines highlighted above, and update the banned list in the case that it doesn’t.
However, Twitch has refrained from updating the banned list since it was uploaded nearly six months ago, despite instances of Stake copy-cat casinos spawning on the web. This blurs the effectiveness of such a list as a solution against prohibited gambling sites, as updating the list does nothing more than push the problem another few months down the line.
Cut off the head of one casino, and two more will take its place, so to speak.
Additionally, some viewers suggested that Neymar, streaming from Brazil, might not be subject to Twitch’s regulations, which only apply to American streamers. In response, xQc noted that when he was doing gambling streams, he resided in Canada, yet still had to comply with Twitch’s rules.
Just the same, the guidelines’ focus seems to be on whether the given domain is on the prohibited list or not (or is an associated domain of one on the list), not the source location of the stream.
At this time, Twitch has stated that it has no plans to ban broadcasting websites that are dedicated to fantasy sports, sports betting, or poker.
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