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by qwery 974 days ago
Yeah. "You ensure" that Twitch users' "experience" of your stream is "no less" than other platform users' "experience".

They write them like this deliberately -- so they can enforce them however they like, and there's nothing clear-cut so they are largely unaccountable. They're "guidelines" after all -- mere suggestions at things you might like to consider. You know, "guidelines", as in "your account has been closed due to your recent breach/es of the guidelines".

So, if I can't ensure that every person watching on OtherPlatform is having a measurably worse time than every person watching on Twitch, I'm risking my Twitch channel? Unless they came here for a bad time, I guess, so every Twitch viewer must be having the experience that they deem as more than or equal to every OtherPlatform viewer.

I guess if I can't comply with that then maybe I just don't have what it takes to be a god/Twitch streamer.
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mptest 974 days ago
Isn't this pretty much exactly one of the major things they're accused of in the anti trust suit against them? They would ban you from selling if you sold your product cheaper on your own site where amazon doesn't get a cut. Seems their m.o.
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mysidia11 973 days ago
That's something Amazon did with Amazon sellers which is an issue.

I don't think there's been an Antitrust complaint against Twitch though -- this complaint would have to be formally raised by a competing streaming platform though, unfortunately. It is not enough that it harms creators or consumers (Consumers cannot raise the antitrust issue -- due to quirks in the US law; it is only competing companies such as Youtube, Trovo, etc, whose competition would be harmed by their actions or the US government who can have standing to raise an antitrust complaint - Antitrust violations and anticompetitive behavior harm consumers and other companies indirectly but the courts only give standing to sue to the actual competitors).

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trogdc 974 days ago
> If you fail to adhere to the Simulcast Guidelines, Twitch will send you a warning prior to taking any enforcement action

https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/simulcasting-guidelines?lan...

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