Recent Developments of TOS Actions Taken

[Vnolan]

So if they are fair and are now using outside information, anyone streaming with a parser should theoretically be punished. Because they are using something which is against the ToS.

Parsing is officially against the ToS, but Yoshida has said you can use it if you keep it to yourself, but an interesting question is brought up: Is streaming considered keeping it to yourself?

If the policy has changed, then we need to know exactly how and when it is going to be enforced.

Don't break the ToS. Problem solved. Unlikely that you'll get a definitive answer to "Which rules are we allowed to break?"

A player can invest a considerable amount of time, effort and energy into the game. That isn't something that should be taken away lightly. If an account is otherwise clean and the act itself isn't something extremely terrible then it baffles me that the default approach isn't simply a verbal warning.

Already taken into account with the penalty system:
Account Penalty Policy

They'll punish someone for being a jerk but not someone for cheating. Why?

Because harassment is handled by GMs and cheating is handled by the STF. Good luck getting any info on how the STF operates.

If I go and record someone botting right now and submit that evidence to a GM, the botter should be dealt with accordingly.

Ignoring the fact that GMs do not deal with bots, the appropriate example would be submitting a link to a stream/VOD hosted by the botter while they were botting, not of you catching them botting on your stream.