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Remove "sensitive social issues" bullet point.

Twitch should remove the "sensitive social issues" clause from Article VII of its Content Classification Guidelines. LGBTQ+ people, immigrants, and reproductive rights are NOT "sensitive social issues", they are common sense issues, where one side simply wants their liberties intact. The controversy is entirely on the other side of the argument the involves taking those liberties away.

Especially as it pertains to LGBTQ+ individuals, the notion that the discussion of their very existence is political is absolute nonsense. These people should be allowed to discuss the issues affecting them without being set behind some kind of "explicit content" label. This is a slippery slope that begins with people automatically labeling non-heteronormative lives and content as "deviant" or "degenerate", especially by grossly bad actors who want to be edgy.

Remove the final bullet point from Article VII.
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ADameNamedAmy shared this idea  ·   ·  Report…  ·  Admin →
Closed  ·  AdminTwitchSupport (Admin, Twitch) responded  · 

Thank you for raising this. We’ve just posted a Tweet addressing these concerns.

You don’t need to label your stream with the new Politics & Sensitive Social Issues CCL if you are sharing your lived experience. Intermittent mentions of politics, politicians, or sensitive social issues also do not require the Politics and Sensitive Social Issues label. We apologize for not communicating this well initially.

If you are an LGBTQ+ streamer, for example, you do not need this label when talking about your lived experience as a member of the LGBTQ+ community. We’ve added clarifying language to the Content Classification Guidelines to better express this.
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  • MissOnyxAngel commented  ·   ·  Report

    As a trans lesbian, this is the worst thing I have seen in sometime our existence is not controversial or political we want to live the way we want to live not have some stance against us that excludes us from the platform twitch I hope you revert this decision because it will hands down break apart your community as a whole and isn't right to the LGBTQ+ community we want fair treatment
  • EldritchRuby commented  ·   ·  Report

    I am not a political topic because I am alive

    Get rid of this
  • Serilaeth commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is insane. LGBTQIA+ existing is not controversial and we should be allowed to talk about out lives and issues... As a trans streamer of course I'm going to talk about things when asked it's part of educating people who may not know... But this does read as a gay streamer wouldn't be allowed to discuss their wedding on stream as that is a 'controversial social issue'
  • GarbageNirvana commented  ·   ·  Report

    LGBTQ+ is not a political label. People have a right to exist and be who they are no matter their identity.
  • kawaii_hankhill commented  ·   ·  Report

    Our existence is not "controversial", twitch. This policy is effectively banning all trans people from streaming on the platform and is a terrible idea.
  • babanasaur commented  ·   ·  Report

    If I started a stream and then had a label forced on me for talking about issues that affect me in my day to day life as a Queer individual? I think that would feel pretty discriminatory to put it lightly. My fears involving discrimination against my identity is a "socio-political view"?

    It would also imply to the viewers watching the stream that I'm "different". This whole thing opens up passages for more people to harass and bully creators that aren't white, straight, or cis men.
  • yurei1453 commented  ·   ·  Report

    This requirement is effectively telling trans people they can no longer stream on Twitch. That our mere existence is too sensitive to be allowed without a flag, no matter the content of their stream. This is NOT fair and equitable treatment.
  • ReevaTheFox commented  ·   ·  Report

    My existence as an LGBTQ+ individual is not a political issue that deserves to be labelled as "explicit content".

    If this was applied to any other group it shows how stupid it would be and the backlash it would get.

    If this rule was applied to another attribute/part of who someone is as a person, for example if twitch decided to sensor/hide all darker skin tones (most people with a working brain know racism is bad) then the backlash would be huge.

    so why is it ok to treat one group of individuals this way when it would be frowned to do the same to another?

    just remove the stupid rule and treat everyone with dignity and respect....it's not that hard
  • enoxs4252 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Being LGBT should NOT be considered by a company to be controversial. Or Being an immigrant should be controversial. The notion that groups of people should be lumped together with warfare as a "controversial" topic perpetuates the idea that queer people and immigrants are issues to be debated rather than people who should be able to simply exist.

    And cedes ground to those who seek to take our rights away and make us less accepted. Do better and remove this nonsense.
  • DyanoMate commented  ·   ·  Report

    I think I won't be streaming on Twitch again if my existence needs an explicit label.

  • jemi_gaymi commented  ·   ·  Report

    Adding now to my bio "sensitive social issue".
    This is so counter productive. It's actually quite dangerous.
  • kyumiji commented  ·   ·  Report

    We are people like everyone else too and not some social issues
  • ParadoxDawnLive commented  ·   ·  Report

    really poor ill-informed decision on twitch's part, hopefully they come to their senses and remove this clause, and hopefully other companies watch and learn not to pull this kind of thing. It's encouraging to see so many votes on this though so far, let's goooo :3
  • TGerror commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is so much 60 years ago Where you can be thrown in jail for being black or holding another man's hand, not something that belongs nowadays
  • SorrowfulRosesVT commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is really disheartening and disappointing to hear. Especially considering how much of the streaming is made up of community lgbtq+ streamers and viewers.

    I’m honestly hoping you guys as a streaming company wouldn’t do something like this but I’m continually disappointed in how this app has treated us creator’s. Being gay, trans or whatever sexual orientation or identity is something that shouldn’t be censored like this and we should have a right to discuss it especially with like minded people and people who come to our streams for us. Talk about lgbtq+ helps educate people about ourselves and about our lives and allows us to help each other connect with others while being informative.

    Stuff like this doesn’t need to be censored but it doesn’t entirely surprise me that twitch would rather censor everything except for the bikini models practically streaming **** to your website. If you want a **** site then make one but the idea that lgbtq needs to be more censored then a hot tub model is baffling and disappointing.
  • GinnyVT commented  ·   ·  Report

    this is a dumb rule that pushes hate. plz remove this ruke unless u want to promote hate that is
  • JustAnotherSnake commented  ·   ·  Report

    It absolutely *is* political, and removing the explicit label would allow those with majority child audiences to abuse their status as an entertainer to manipulate them. Just imagine if someone like Kai cenat started telling his audience to vote for trump, how pisse doff youd be. Keep this **** behind a gate.

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