I'm curious about the operating costs. It seems like Twitch should be losing money, as YouTube does, but because Google/Amazon are gaining other non-monetary benefits that eventually become profits in other services, they keep them alive.

In order to help this they make all kinds of deals with governments. What I am getting at is without more information, I can't really tell if this is a good or bad thing. Companies that aren't profitable and use government to stay afloat should go out of business.