Twitch to ban users from streaming unlicensed gambling content

Move by Amazon-owned site apparently prompted by revelations popular streamer scammed fellow users

Twitch, the Amazon-owned streaming site, will ban users from posting videos of themselves playing slots, roulette or dice games on unlicensed gambling sites, the company has said.

The ban, which is effective as of 18 October, comes in the wake of a wide-ranging scandal among top-tier streamers after British streamer ItsSliker admitted to scamming other hosts out of thousands of dollars to fuel what he described as a gambling addiction.