It's important to see this policy change clearly in the context of this moment, days before the election in the USA. Twitch is owned by Jeff Bezos, who, under clear and present threats from Trump, is engaging in preemptive capitulation for personal gain under a potential Trump administration, and willingly selling out the entire country in the process. See: cnn dot com/2024/11/01/media/washington-post-writers-endorsement-atlantic

And now this. My existence as a queer trans non-binary disabled streamer is only "political" to bigots - and also, to give Bezos the benefit of the doubt, to anyone willingly engaging in anticipatory appeasement of any potential future autocratic administration.

Bezos is a coward, and any staff members of Twitch willing to enforce his proactive submission to a theocratic and fascist autocracy are no better.

I WILL NOT COMPLY.

NOT NOW.

NOT EVER.

niggling details: Jeff Bezos is the founder and largest shareholder of Amazon by percentage of shares ($166 billion worth of shares as of March 23, 2024), and Amazon owns Twitch outright. No individual person, company, or organization has higher ownership of Twitch than Bezos.

I see now that my existance is compared to... wars? For some reason???
Every change you've been pushing to this platform for the last years shows how little you care about humans in general.

My existance is being limited and censored, and this bs changes only empower the hate we recieve, it only empowers my existance being shoved aside because im a "sensitive social issue".

I cannot just stop talking about LGBTQ+ topics because IT'S MY DALY LIFE

Discussions encourage growth should not be put under a warning, human rights aren't political.

LGBTQIA+ creators existences ARE NOT political. Bigots try to make our existence political. By content flagging us as political, Twitch is siding with bigotry.

This is absolutely discriminatory and honestly is just done to placate pearl-clutching far right scumbags.

Remove it now.

Thanks for discriminating against us, Twitch. Way to announce that people are either straight white and christian, or "politcal", and need to be flagged as sensitive content for just existing.

Remove this ******** clause.

With this, Jeff Bezos says the only good and acceptable LGBTQ on Twitch are the ones that comply with the rules and make him the most money. If that doesn't make you angry, you're not paying attention. Our existence is not a crime, it is a fact of life.

This is depressing sad, i just wanna live like everyone else. I'm not a number to be debated

The fact people's basic rights is being called controversial.. not even that; simply their identity and existence is absolutely absurd.

People do not choose to be LGBTQ+. Simply talking about their own experience being themselves should not lead to them having a label slapped on them as "controversial".

Please remove this. It's honestly insulting, not only for me who is non-binary, but to everyone who is part of the lgbtq+ community and streams on twitch or watches twitch streamers. We're people like everyone else, it shouldn't be politicized or labelled as "explicit" or lumped in with wars. We're just normal folks who are trying to live our lives as best we can.

Discussion about human rights issues ARE NOT political. period. It is not an ideology, it is not a choice. It is who we are as fellow humans and we should not settle for simply being tolerated by companies and society as a whole.

Freedom of expression is not just for cishet people.

The only thing that’s controversial about LGBTQ+ is the fact that people think being LGBTQ+ is controversial. People involved in this group have more self-love than any other people in this group, and it would be disingenuous to both me personally and to anybody in the LGBTQ+ space if it wasn’t. I LITERALLY WOULD NOT BE HERE IF I DIDNT LEARN TO LOVE MYSELF AND COME OUT AS TRANS!! AND MANY OTHERS BELIEVE THAT TOO!!

It’s not even a matter of gender identity, or POLITICS (eugh…), it’s a matter of LOVE. Please reconsider and change this policy. These matters have only been controversial because people can profit off of censorship, and I’m tired of seeing good people who genuinely care about being authentic about being themselves not be able to express that. Twitch is a platform about expressing yourself, and expressing yourself being THE ENTIRE POINT OF LGBTQ+ makes me believe this change is a real step backwards. Please, again, reconsider this policy!

glad to see Twitch is making another brainless idea without even thinking of the consequences, they clearly never learn

dogshit policy

The idea that entire groups of people have their existence boiled down to sensitive social issues is, quite frankly, absurd.

This is discriminatory!

Putting LGBTQ social issues in the same sensitive category as discussing civil unrest and war crimes is a war crime itself.

Being and discussing the LGBTQ experience is not “sensitive” unless you’re a bigot.

Can't wait to see this dogshit website burn to the ground with policies like this.

This should be removed. There is no reason to have a "sensitive content warning" for LGBTQ+ people. This is discriminatory! This is offensive. I'd like to keep my rights thank you very much. This isn't a political ideology and is normal. The fact this is deemed political at all is stupid. Remove the final bullet point from Article VII. We have always existed and will continue to do so. Do better, Twitch!

I don't agree with any of these, but this one especially ****** me off. Existing is not political, and if it is, you're a terrible person that shouldn't be in politics.