Twitch’s ‘do not ban’ list protected their most profitable streamers
nypost.comstreaming gamer platform kept a “do not ban” list for their most popular streamers. A report by The Washington Post on Friday detailed the controversial list, which once featured many of Twitch’s early streaming partners, such as Tyler “Tyler1” Steinkamp, Bryan “RiceGum” Le and Hassan Bokhari.The list, reportedly no longer active, was designed to alert Twitch moderators that some users — generally, ones with some of the site’s largest audiences, including site administrators — were exempt from certain member restrictions.Nevertheless, the biased policies, WaPo reported, “contribute to a culture in which a handful of streamers sometimes got more leeway than others,” according to insider reports.WaPo spoke to “several former Twitch employees”.
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