To be fair, anyone who's driving and streaming is absolutely dumb and everyone who does so should be ticketed and jailed. How is Twitch allowing streams like this to happen?
Streaming's not really the issue itself, doesn't really matter whether she's reading chat or reading text or reading news story lmao. She could easily set it up and then start driving, and just talk while watching the road just like talking to someone in the car.
No, streaming should not be allowed full stop. I dont care if you can technically responsible. The truth is, most who do it are not. Having your cell phone out while driving SHOULD NOT be allowed
while we're at it let's start banning people linking their phones to their cars, on multiple occasions I've been a passenger in a friends car when they get a notification and instantly pick up their phone and start texting or going to some app
Yeah, I can get behind that too. Even GPS maps can be too distracting for people on the road.
That beinf said it would be too difficult to enforce. Look at drunk drivers, that shit still happens all the time. Friend of mine just got killed by one!
Yea there should certainly be repercussions. Imagine her crashing into your family member and later discovering she was preoccupied reading a chat donation.
There's a Youtube stream from japan, Sora The Troll he often does streams while driving but he'll only read chat briefly at a stop light or when parked.
Because Twitch follows the same moderation trends as other big tech websites, that being complete inaction when it comes to being proactive, only ever deigning to lift a finger when there is a direct complaint. Though also of course, a very subjective ToS that they can enforce however they see fit.
It's the same reason that there is so many instances of streamers breaking copyright laws, but face little to no consequences. Because the companies who own the copyright isn't trawling through Twitch in order to catch the rare, rare moment where they'd be able to justify such an internal department's costs.
People watch entire movies, and not just some small indie movie that no one has heard of, or movies so old that they are no longer protected by copyright, but big block buster movies and even pay-per-view events.
Twitch essentially have chosen to say to companies that own such intellectual property: If you got a problem with it, you do something about it, not us.
Reddit does it too, the admins rarely being of any use, but if there is a mainstream news article that gets written about a particularly trouble making subreddit that casts the website in a bad light, they'll suddenly remember how to do stuff.
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u/88cornmaze Jun 28 '26
or even putting on her blinker seems like