The recent Terms of Sale is a disgrace.
Section 7, Final paragraph, first line "Twitch reserves the right to deactivate any user from any Twitch Services for any reason or no reason. "
Twitch.tv can't be serious, and can't hope to have success with this in the US where it is based. Outrageous!
AND, hidden behind little links, away from the accept button, that's FORCED onto your twitch browser experience, blocking you from chatting unless you accept!!
This strikes me as a violation of the US constitution, which, as the company is based there would be illegal practices to publish or enforce.
A reason MUST be given and this clause can NOT be allowed to stand.
Furthermore, this same wording is repeated in section 10, and seems to explicity say that twitch, under the terms that they can terminate your account for no reason, and that any digital goods or ancilliary products (e.g. Twitch Bits), would be forfeited and not reinstated in that instance.
Being removed from the service for no reason is not acceptable from my perspective. To then add insult to injury and refuse any refund, equal or equivalent to the value of the ancilliary or digital product surely cannot be acceptable.
Under this section as a whole and as a result of this wording, a user could spend hundred or thousands of dollars on bits, be banned for no reason, and that money effectively robbed from them.
This is like twitch's own version of DE-BANKING, which has been condemned as a HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION!
The last point I'll make about the recent Terms of Sale update that I'll be avoiding agreeing to, is section 17. Titled 'Taxes'. Particularly the folowing sentence - "If you do not pay such sales or other tax or fee on a transaction, you will be responsible for such taxes or fees in the event that they are later determined to be payable on such sale, and Twitch reserves the right to collect such taxes or other fees from you at any time."
This is so very badly worded that I'm not really sure it has any place in a legal document. If it's written by AI, that's one thing. If not, someone should be repremanded for it.
Upvote if you think these ToS are beyond the pale.
Thanks,
Sincerely,
BeyondTheBoxArt