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.
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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PennyAndTheWeb
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I don't think our existence should be labelled as "political". In what world is "gay/trans people existing and enjoying themselves as they are" something that should be labelled as explicit content? Please remove that bullet point.
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communism_miku
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Freedom of speech
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MemoryOfMoonlight
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Not being able to talk about core parts of your identity because bigots think it's "political" is bad, actually
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wolfcreatures
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Being LGBT and black isn’t political
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Eleon_Alosty
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Must be nice to just exist and not have labels put on you like "political" or "controversial". This is inhuman do better.
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LunaDevelopmentsUk
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As an indie creator team we are strongly against twitch currently due to this. Twitch is meant to be a platform for all no matter there gender, sexual orientation or race. This is a step backwards, twitch won't be a platform that I would want to use let alone my team. It is unfair to censor and label my team. As someone that is also questioning my gender identity this make me feel isolated and to be labelled away almost censored from society for who I want to be. I don't want anyone in my staff team to feel the exact same!
This is unprogressive and unprofessional of twitch. Explain to me why LGBTQ+ are being treated as a sensitive topic, these are people not objects.
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MiaFromTheFuture
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Thanks for making yet another platform unsafe for queer people.
It's just discrimination. Twitch has shown recently they have no moral compass and only respond to public pressure, which especially recently has been abused by bad faith actors.
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Posiedon1234
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This is a shocking absence of thought from the Twitch team. To simply exist as a queer person isn’t politics. The same way to simply exist as a black man isn’t politics. It’s life. You would make me label myself as a sensitive topic for existing.
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Drewsipher
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LGBTQ people EXISTING is not a social or political issue. They shouldn't have to be pigeon holes into that label because it will invite hate and bigotry "because its in the political label" and you will have debate/phil bros trying to push their buttons which they don't deserve.
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kinja427
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Human rights are not “sensitive social issues.” Stop listening to the people who think Nazis were the good guys in WW2.
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HadoukenOfRuin
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So it seems there's a severe misinterpretation of it. You're not disallowed to talk about LGBTQ+ or the topic itself being a "Sensitive social issue" to quote the full part of it:
"Discussing LEGISLATION related to a sensitive social issue such as reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ rights, or immigration" Keyword here being "LEGISLATION". You're allowed to talk about being LGBTQ+ individuals without being pushed under the label, you just can't discuss the LEGISLATION around it. They even specified at the end:Labeling not required:
Streams containing informational or educational content that aim to share knowledge in a neutral, fact-based manner, rather than engaging in any kind of advocacy for an issue or candidate. For example, sharing the history of how votes in the US presidential election are counted to determine the next President, or merely encouraging individuals to vote or register to vote.
Intermittent mentions of politics, politicians, or sensitive social issues are not required to have the Politics and Sensitive Social Issues label.
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telnaga
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my existence is not political
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goodnighteye
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In a world that is already increasingly hostile towards LGBTQ+ people, this is just salt in the wound. Pure existence is not a political statement. We just want to exist in peace.
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NebaNatsuki
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Queer issues are human rights issues, not political issues.
Queer identities are not a choice.
LGBTQIA+ identities are not "sensitive issues", they're people's lives, core aspects of who they are, NOT something to censored or hidden away from advertisers, nor should they be used to deny queer creators a chance of earning revenue.
This ain't it.
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chilli__pepper
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Mano, não tem condições de ninguém da equipe da twitch perceber o tamanho da cagada q isso vai ser, vamos ser melhores né
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gaymothyman
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I understand the sentiment behind this. However, there are many streamers whose existence would be considered 'political' under the current point. It would be unethical to require LGBT streamers, for example, to label simply talking about their life as a 'sensitive political issue' in an otherwise non-politics centric stream
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KingEnderbro
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Get your grubby unwashed, unvaccinated hands out of twitch conservative.
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snore_the_lucky
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This ain't it chief, people are people
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rubychan2288
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You have got to be kidding me. There cannot possibly be real, adult humans who thought this was in way, shape, or form a rational decision.
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caydeofspaydes
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They’ll say our existence is a “social issue” then make exceptions for people calling for the extermination of anyone who isn’t a cishet able-bodied rich white man.