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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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  • PlausiblyRen commented  ·   ·  Report

    A person's existence is not "political", and the fact that Twitch, a platform wildly popular with the exact demographics this bullet point is trying to censor, would even consider implementing this speaks extremely negatively to the site's future. Were I an investor reading this I would drop you like a rock, because not only are such regressive policies polarizing and dangerous, they are also terrible for business.
  • gunk_b commented  ·   ·  Report

    If this flagging system continues to be used i will likely abandon and delete twitch from my device.
  • IcecreamNoodle commented  ·   ·  Report

    Calling people a "sensitive social issue" is a bit much, it only serves the people who want to recklessly harm them
  • Zoey_Bee_ commented  ·   ·  Report

    The right to live my own life as my own person is not a political topic up for debate. I just wanna be happy.

    Politicizing peoples' lives is the first step into outlawing them. Outlawing them is the first step toward eradication. Make a person/race political, and you can make them/their actions illegal. Illegalities call for punishment. Punishment for them being themselves is a call to remove them from society.

    The short version: making queer people political *at all* is done with the intent to silence them. Why do *we* have to be quiet? Why do *we* have to quantify our lives to you? Why is it *our* responsibility to convince you that we mean no harm when we are the ones threatened?
  • OnceIwashuman commented  ·   ·  Report

    People existing is not political and you should not be appeasing bigots who are trying to make people's mere existence political.
  • AniBlake commented  ·   ·  Report

    Including this is a leap in the wrong direction. Enough of the world has become hateful and politicized the LGBT. Don't make people feel unsafe to talk about themselves
  • lalahss commented  ·   ·  Report

    The fact the LGBTQ+ community and immigrants are considered political when all they do is exist is frankly offensive. It doesn't hurt anyone for these people to exist; what does hurt is for their existence to be sequestered away, hidden behind 'explicit content' labels. This is the exact move that will drive people off your platform. Nobody wants to be a political football, especially those who are demonised by others for simply existing. Let this website stay a safe place for those communities.
  • sporkpowah commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch creating issues out of nowhere, what are they doing...
  • lauthien commented  ·   ·  Report

    I'm so angry at this bullet point that words fail me!
    What right do you have to categorize people as "sensitive issues"? Even the sensitive issues should be openly discuss, they are still part of everyday life. This is infuriating.

  • cupcakeboxes commented  ·   ·  Report

    LGBTQ+ people are not political, Twitch. WTF is wrong with you
  • EleanorOwO commented  ·   ·  Report

    existence is not a "political or sensitive social issue" LGBTQIA+ people, women, non white people, etc exist and shouldn't need to label their bloody stream because of it
  • tarmiko commented  ·   ·  Report

    No groups existence is "political". Bigots politicize marginalised people's existence. Rather than this you should be banning the people who are spouting hatred towards marginalised groups.
  • chefjustice commented  ·   ·  Report

    No people's existences is political; rather, bigots politicize marginalized people's existences. Maybe if your T&S removed people spouting vitriol towards minority groups, there wouldn't be any reason for this horrific rule in the first place. I can think of a couple other times throughout history where minority groups have been labeled for the "benefit" of the majority. Playing into those is a terrible look.
  • OhNoItsLuBu commented  ·   ·  Report

    As mentioned above, people are not "sensitive social issues", they're people and should be treated with the same respect as everyone else. This categorization is par for the course with Twitch's previous bad rule making but god I hope you make a change this time because it's really egregious and incompetent to leave this sort of language in.
  • AdriftOnASea commented  ·   ·  Report

    Existence is not a "political or sensitive social issue". LGBTQI+, women, non-white people exist and should not have to label their stream because of it.
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