Twitch expands its ban on gambling livestreams
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Amazon-owned Twitch said Wednesday it's expanding the ban on livestreams of gambling content on the platform.The company said it will now prohibit streams of online casinos Blaze and Gamdom, adding to the four sites it banned last October when its new gambling policy went into effect. Twitch announced the restrictions after a controversy broke out on the platform last year involving a streamer accused of scamming users and other content creators out of thousands of dollars to fuel a gambling addiction. That led some big-name streamers to protest the platform's lax policies on gambling streams. As the pressure intensified, Twitch said it would prohibit websites that include slots, roulettes or dice games and aren't “licensed either in the U.S. or in other jurisdictions that provid...