As tech faces a reckoning, what you do offline can get you banned


FILE PHOTO Men look at a wall of real-time video game play in the lobby of Twitch Interactive Inc a social video platform and gaming community owned by Amazon in San Francisco California U.S. March 6 2017.  REUTERSElijah Nouvelage

FILE PHOTO: Men look at a wall of real-time video game play in the lobby of Twitch Interactive Inc, a social video platform and gaming community owned by Amazon, in San Francisco, California, U.S., March 6, 2017. REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelage

(Reuters) - Earlier this month, Twitch announced it would start banning users for behavior away from its site.

The move by Amazon Inc's live-streaming platform involved hiring a law firm to conduct investigations into users' misconduct, a new twist in the latest prominent example of tech companies acting on "off-service" behavior.

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