Twitch posted a new policy to combat the spread of fake news, which of course raised a lot of questions.
TTV’s position was simple – to fight against publishing, spreading, and duplicating false information. However, we are talking about Twitch, i.e. a platform that approaches such matters in a very zero-one way. So you could have guessed that people, in general, would panic a bit.
Information has begun to be published in social media that if a given streamer lies or tells false information, he will be banned. TTV had to react and explain that it won’t be like that, and that’s not what it’s all about.
Fighting with false information
The platform itself writes that it is about larger “moves”, not individual opinions. As we read in the statement:
This update is unlikely to affect you or your favorite Twitch streamers in any way. Our goal is to block access to Twitch to people whose online presence is devoted to spreading false information that could harm someone. We will not apply this rule to authors expressing a one-time opinion.
So there is no possibility that the streamer will say that today is, for example, March 4, and in fact it will be 5 and will be banned for it. This also applies to the chat itself. There is no reason to be concerned about such things, at least in theory.
In practice, we are still talking about Twitch, which sometimes interprets its own ToS in a very strange way.