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Twitch is not their employer. Twitch collects money from them.

• vkou 6y ago
  Twitch collects money from viewers, and pays money to them.
  • ipaddr 6y ago
    Twitch takes half of the subscription fee. Twitch doesn't employ streamers. Twitch takes platform fees.
    • thelean12 6y ago
      You 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 ago
        You 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 ago
          Did 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.