Twitch: "Our Plan for Addressing Severe Off-Service Misconduct"

Salubrious said:
Awww man, that's sad. Any articles on that?

I hope I'm not repeating myself too much, but whenever someone asks about Twitch or Youtube alternatives, I always say that the fact that Microsoft has already pulled out of the market entirely, even as a loss leader for the XBox, tells me that there's NO future in the service unless you are one of the big two.
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It's mostly just me following up on their social media. Literally no one cared even 2 months after the shutdown. Alotta peepul didn't even know what Mixer was until they announced it was closing.
 
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Popularizing the internet so it would become mainstream was a horrible, horrible mistake.

We must return to the days of dial-up and IRC.

In retrospect, it was probably a poor decision to livestream on Twitch my playthrough of Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion with Shaneequa the orc.
 
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I'm all for it if it gets some dog fucking diaperfur weirdos or DSP kicked off of Twitch. Obviously it's a bad precedent to set, but Bezos has FUCK YOU money. Hopefully other streaming services won't start their own versions of this shit. Streamers will most likely bend over and take it but I'd like to see them all leave Twitch.
 
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With the amount of posts on LSF about streamers getting caught abusing their partners, grooming kids, abusing animals, etc. this isn't that surprising. They've been banning streamers for saying things on other platforms that break their ToS for a long time. Its just going to be "X streamer got banned for saying something ToS on discord" in all likelihood.
 
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ArmouredRobin said:
Time to audit some streamers who ain't been paying their taxes
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Twitch issues 1099s for royalties and other such shit to people in its partner program, if they’re making more than like $600 per year. When those forms get issued the issuer also has to send a copy to the IRS and the IRS will come back hard if they have a bad SSN or other such shit. By the time you’re ready to file your taxes, the IRS already knows how many twitchbux you got (you’re treated as an independent contractor) and it’s up to you to report those less any deductible self-employment expenses. Onlyfans does the same thing. As for how many people do comply and file their taxes, uncertain. Just because you got a 1099 and didn’t report it doesn’t mean you’ll be audited immediately; the IRS can and will slug you for several years of tax fuckery all at once.
 
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Under sane circumstances, a CEO wouldn't care what a user of their service did offline (unless it was criminal conduct) as long as they followed community guidelines while using said service.
However, we are in Clown World and these corporatists are too busy trying to be virtuous for the mentally ill of society.
 
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