Twitch does a chokepoint capitalism

“Amazon is charging Amazon so much money to run the business via Amazon that it has no choice but to take more money from streamers.”

Cory Doctorow
7 min readSep 22, 2022

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A modified version of the Beacon Press cover for ‘Chokepoint Capitalism’ featuring the title and a stylized horizontal hourglass graphic; the logo for Twitch is superimposed over the pinch-point and the wordmark for Twitch is beneath it.

When Amazon bought Twitch, the story was that the new conglomerate would be more efficient and that would benefit everyone — streamers and audiences. That’s the story we hear about…

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