Whether it should be allowed or not by law can be a different discussion, but we don't have to pretend that this is new
Oh awesome. I am sure Twitch streamers are looking forward to guaranteed minimum wage, paid time-off, health insurance, etc.
It doesn't matter to me how you categorize that relationship, my point is valid. "Basically employees" was a plenty fine layman's categorization, though. We aren't lawyers here.
A company firing an employee for getting arrested is a very close situation to Twitch "firing" a streamer for getting arrested.
If I say come drink from my waterhose. At some point I dislike you and I say you can't drink here. You can't fire them.
If google disables your email you didn't get fired you were kicked off the platform.
And it's not quite like that. It's if someone comes up to you and says "Hey I can get a bunch of people to come and drink from your water hose. If I get enough can you pay me?" And then they get arrested for murder and you think maybe they should stop.