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Having consumed a lot of twitch content over COVID, this is 100% a rule to be selectively enforced to protect certain classes of streamers and remove the other "brand risk" kinds of streamers.

This is already done with their arbitrary bans where "context matters", yet two streamers doing the same action can result in no punitive action for one and an indefinite ban for another.

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I'm not familar with twitch, but that's how any sane discipline system works. Context always matters, regardless of whether its being a troll on the internet or if you're in court for murder charges and anything between.

That's not to say rule makers can't abuse their discretion. They certainly can. But having discretion is not the same thing as abusing it.

I think you missed the point. They use the pretext of context for selective and unfair enforcement

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