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I'm not sure why you say "arrived". People have always been fired for arrests at some companies. Twitch is basically their employer, so it's not much different
by thelean12 6y ago
I'm not sure why you say "arrived". People have always been fired for arrests at some companies. Twitch is basically their employer, so it's not much different here.
Whether it should be allowed or not by law can be a different discussion, but we don't have to pretend that this is new
- madamelic 6y ago>Twitch is basically their employer, so it's not much different here. Oh awesome. I am sure Twitch streamers are looking forward to guaranteed minimum wage, paid time-off, health insurance, etc.
- thelean12 6y agoWhat's your point? Does it change my point if they're considered contractors vs employees vs hobbyists vs whatever?
- anoncake 6y agoSince your point is that "Twitch is basically their employer", whether they're basically employees is relevant.
- thelean12 6y agoAnyone with substantial following, who would be most likely to get snitched on with this new policy, will be making money from twitch. It doesn't matter to me how you categorize that relationship, my point is valid. "Basically employees" was a plenty fine layman's categorization, though. We aren't lawyers here.
- ipaddr 6y agoTwitch is not their employer. Twitch collects money from them.
- vkou 6y agoTwitch collects money from viewers, and pays money to them.
- ipaddr 6y agoTwitch takes half of the subscription fee. Twitch doesn't employ streamers. Twitch takes platform fees.
- thelean12 6y agoYou are all getting way too caught up in terms. It doesn't matter. A company firing an employee for getting arrested is a very close situation to Twitch "firing" a streamer for getting arrested.
- ipaddr 6y agoYou can't fire a user. You can kick them off your platform. If I say come drink from my waterhose. At some point I dislike you and I say you can't drink here. You can't fire them. If google disables your email you didn't get fired you were kicked off the platform.
- thelean12 6y agoDid you miss my quotations? I said "fire" in quotations, obviously not meant to be taken literally. And it's not quite like that. It's if someone comes up to you and says "Hey I can get a bunch of people to come and drink from your water hose. If I get enough can you pay me?" And then they get arrested for murder and you think maybe they should stop.
- bluefirebrand 6y agoTwitch is closer to being their pimp than their employer.