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.
ADameNamedAmy
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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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jodie_marie
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Humans are Human, Love is Love. End of Discussion.
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breadstoveart
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As someone who watches a handful of LGBTQ+ streamers, I would hate for their viewer base to tank because of something as silly as a meaningless lable. Human rights and topics about them are not a "sensitive subject."
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JakenBaco
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twitch doing this will be one of if not their worst idea in the history of the company.
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mariolevi12
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Human Rights are not and should not ever be a controversial subject
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eldermage1
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Why are you trying to imitate the downfall of Twitter, Twitch? Doing this will only destroy your platform and the livelihoods of those who depend on it.
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alicesilvr
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173 pages of angry comments says a lot. Stop trying to be twitter X, this is only making life more toxic and supporting a cruel monetized world, suffocated by prejudice and bigotry. It's possible to become wealthy without acting like the actually controversial wealthy folk. Look at that, I don't need to name shame to make my point. Follow suit, twitch, and you may actually learn something.
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NeonBreeze451
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Twitch if you implement this you will never see a red cent of my money
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bakeryjumpscare
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All of the other obvious issues aside (that have been better articulated by others), I see no avenue where the label is going to be at all useful. At best it's going to be used excessively in the name of being cautious, and at worst going to be abused by bad actors flagging every streamer that talks about topics that are important to them in otherwise non-educational streams.
Even though there is written exemption for people who only discuss the issues intermittently, anyone who has existed online for longer than 2 minutes knows that is exactly what is going to happen with such a labeling system and the label is going to get misused while actively ******* off the userbase. Not worth it.
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rdezzers
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Come on Twitch, this decision is beastly. Lgbt people are not a ******* sensitive subject to anyone with human empathy
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palaceofmelia
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The right to not be hated or systematically discriminated against for existing is not something that can be put up for debate. This policy does nothing but bolster the ego of those who want to enact pain & suffering into countless people's lives.
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MisteryRaven
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people should be allowed to be who they are and that's just the way it is.
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Zakoholic
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LGBTQ+ people, immigrants, and reproductive rights are NOT "sensitive social issues". Remove the final bullet point from Article VII.
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cold_knees13
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This is going to be used to flag streamers who belong to marginalized groups just for existing while being queer/black/women/etc. There's nothing "explicit" about any of those groups, and there's nothing "explicit" about social issues, even considering flagging such things is disgusting and unequivocably bigotted.
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wipeyourtearsbeautiful
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These people's existence aren't social issues. If the last bullet point is implemented, I'm dropping Twitch entirely.
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nebelwespe
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This clause treats immigrants and LGBTQ individual's existence as political. This is forcing streamers to never talk about topics pertaining to themselves in fear of scaring off viewers.
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the_almighty_meepers
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I've tried signing in 5 times and clicked vote 3. I'm not sure if it went through so I'll leave this comment as my vote. LGBTQ+ people, immigrants, and reproductive rights are NOT "sensitive social issues". Remove the bullet point.
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Shaddsie
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A meaningless policy that only makes things harder for queer streamers.
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pllar_of_s4lt
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Treating *any* human like a human is not controversial. The controversy is literally manufactured, because it's not weird for a person to want to be a person. If you don't want lgbtq+ stuff to be an issue, Twitch, maybe let's just accept that we deserve to exist just as much as everyone else, and we can all just do our things, thanks.
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verdigrishammer
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my existence and the existence of people like me aren't a "sensitive political topic"
what is wrong with this company?
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CountessRavencroft
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So simply existing is an issue?
Oh dear Twitch.
You really have not thought this out well.