Twitch Tightens Policies on Gambling Streams

Prominent creators on its platform pushed for the changes

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The streamers spoke, and Twitch listened: The Amazon-owned streaming platform updated its policies to remove gambling sites.

A scandal that came to light last weekend involving U.K.-based streamer ItsSilker scamming money from fellow Twitch streamers to pay off gambling debts led high-profile streamers including Ludwig, Mizkif, Devin Nash, Hasan Piker and Pokimane to threaten to boycott Twitch during high-traffic periods unless it addressed the issue of gambling.

Twitch revealed in a tweet late Tuesday that starting Oct.

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