Banned from a livestream channel for gambling, the famous streamer in the past sued against Twitch

Twitch is the most famous streaming platform in the world, owning the number of streamer and large audience. In that context, the platform is forced to have its own laws to limit negative content from being spread to viewers. Since 2014, Twitch has announced a ban on all gambling-related activities and images from appearing on its platform, including bets using virtual in-game items such as weapons, skins.​

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In July 2016, the famous streamer of PhantomL0rd was banned by this platform because he repeatedly included images related to gambling. live stream mine. Before being banned, PhantomL0rd was one of Twitch’s top 10 streamers with 1.4 million subscribers.

PhantomL0rd real name is James Varga, is a streamer CS: GO famous. After being banned by Twitch, this streamer has begun preparing to sue Twitch. Almost 600 days after the ban, he is back on Youtube and announced that he will bring livestream platform world famous to appear in court (now this video has been deleted). Varga’s attorney argued that Twitch’s unwarranted suspension of livestreaming infringed upon his interests and created huge monetary losses for Varga.​

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However, Twitch expressed that he had enough reasons to do this, Varga not only once propagated his gambling skin game platform, tolerated minors gambling, but also shook hands with others to manipulate betting results. At the same time, Twitch also made public the Skype chat history of male CS: GO streamers.

In the face of Twitch’s accusations, Varga expressed that the gambling platform is not his. Twitch is fabricating false rumors to lead public opinion and divert public attention. His lawyer also added that the contract that Varga signed with Twitch limits the amount of compensation that the platform has to pay to streamers to not exceed $ 50,000, according to the law, this amount of compensation is unreasonable.​

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In the trial that took place on September 30, the interim judge ruled in favor of the streamer, arguing that Twitch’s $50,000 limit of compensation was unreasonable. If Varga wins the lawsuit, perhaps Twitch will have to pay a larger amount for the streamer’s damages. The Polygon site has now contacted Twitch for more information about this incident but has not received a response at this time.

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