Twitch CEO Dan Clancy has voiced his opinions about gambling sites being streamed on the platform. In a new interview with streamer Filian, Clancy noted that some specific sites and streams were targeted due to their unregulated nature. The Twitch boss hinted the platform had no issues with streaming gambling, but that it does not back content featuring unregulated sites. He said: “The thing that was growing was these unregulated offshore gambling sites… These are sites that there’s nobody overlooking to see, for example, what are the odds on the craps tables, are they tweaking them, do they change them, cause they’re not regulated.” Twitch CEO Dan Clancy gives his take about gambling on Twitch pic.twitter.com/c0QoBSTEcZ — Twitch Clips (@ClippedTwitch) June 1, 2023 He also noted that a large amount of money from Twitch was flowing into these unregulated sites as compared to creators, which the platform felt was not good for the community it seeks to foster. The Twitch CEO added: “The amount of money that was flowing, where our creators were building these communities and connections that they formed on Twitch, to drive people to these sites, it was a significant amount of money to a small number of
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Twitch CEO says gambling sites must be regulated before being streamed on the platform
