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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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  • SleepyBouquet commented  ·   ·  Report

    People's romantic partners and cultural identities are not "sensitive topics", they make up the fabric of the community Twitch claims to be trying to protect.
  • BeansBaconBoy commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is disgusting. Why segregate your platform in any way like this? These are human beings simply existing.

  • avalan_flynn commented  ·   ·  Report

    All I see is this being used is just get away with discriminating people. Why on earth would you just simply let people to act bigoted on your platform because they have tagged on a certain way?

    Just the idea that my experience of existing is deemed as political or controversial is beyond ridiculous. Everybody should have the right to express it without having to jump through hoops of "censorship with extra steps". Because that's all this is.
  • LordEmperorRed commented  ·   ·  Report

    I’m sorry, do you find the mere existence of LGBTQ+ offensive?

    Grow thicker skin snowflake.
  • itsRadNoMad commented  ·   ·  Report

    As long as this policy stands, Twitch's "support" for the LGBTQ+ community is entirely performative. Shame on them for thinking people would see this as anything but a way to censor minority voices and other an already marginalized group.
  • MattScamm commented  ·   ·  Report

    LGBTQ+ people, immigrants, and reproductive rights are NOT "sensitive social issues", do better Twitch.
  • ZiggyAwesome99 commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is so wrong in so many ways. We are not "sensitive social issues". We are just people. There is nothing wrong with us.
  • ShrinePlays commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is incredibly abuseable. Take a stand for human rights instead of trying to appeal to people who are actively trying to hurt others and remove their rights.
  • Sapphic commented  ·   ·  Report

    With this new policy, Twitch's 'celebration' of Pride Month or the LGBTQ+ community will become entirely neutralized, but with more insidious things to come. How long before being black or discussing being a person of color(just existing) on Twitch becomes a "sensitive social issue" that needs to be censored? It is blatantly clear how this bullet point is going to be used, and it needs to be removed.
  • AngrySwordswoman commented  ·   ·  Report

    LGBTQ streamers should not have to tag their streams as "sensitive social issues" just for existing. Are you seriously suggesting a streamer should have to hide their streams behind closed door for daring to openly be LGBTQ? Cause that's how this reads
  • bbihih commented  ·   ·  Report

    i'm two spirit. my life and existence is not a sensitive topic.
  • milotheopossum commented  ·   ·  Report

    LGBTQIA+ people are not a sensitive topic. Adding this would force us to censor our existence and scare people away from watching LGBTQIA+ creators streams.

  • vidmaster commented  ·   ·  Report

    LGTBQ+ issues are not sensitive content or political.
  • howlertheviolet commented  ·   ·  Report

    LGBTQ people and immigrants are not sensitive issues unless your goal is to appease the bigots who want those people dead or stripped of their rights. Other platforms have demonstrated that rules like this will only be enforced to silence the voices of marginalized people while bigotry and hate towards those same voices is treated as permissible. So please do better, Twitch.
  • thelarchmage commented  ·   ·  Report

    My existence as a human being should not be deemed controversial. My queer community should not be labeled in such a way, it's exceedingly harmful to treat a group of people in such a way, and has no place on a platform like Twitch, which has a large userbase of queer creators and their fans. My favorite streamer, Skurry, is nonbinary, makes the most wholesome content, and has one of the most well-behaved and supportive fanbase, whose chat is always constructive and wholesome.

    When someone uses the wrong pronoun for them, all someone has to do is type !pronouns and the bot will reply with a constructive correction to inform the user of their error. There's no controversy, no arguing, no fighting, and it's just really nice. There's zero reason for their streams to be labeled controversial just because of their gender. It's really sad I even have to sign this petition, this should be an obvious decision.

  • Ngrasta commented  ·   ·  Report

    What frustrates me is how obviously this can have a negative impact. A person can intentionally misgender someone, and for you to respond and correct them would be 'political' and 'sensitive' because YOU brought up the topic.
  • Azata_Zeeth_Kyrah commented  ·   ·  Report

    Plenty of people have already said what I would say, but I'll still say it: This rule needs to be better thought out.

    Streams specifically for discussion of things like political activity and news reports are worth having a way for people to filter in and out of their feed, but, people simply living our lives is not politics - it's US being PEOPLE.

    Rewrite the rule, or simply eliminate it; it is unclear, and it wrongly classifies people as politics.
  • EldritchHottie commented  ·   ·  Report

    LGBTQIA_+ is not "deviant" or "degenerate" or "explicit content". Members of this community deserve to exist without having our voices suppressed because we don't conform to a cis-gendered, heteronormative way of living.
  • orioninkarnate commented  ·   ·  Report

    LGBTQIA+ people and their experiences are not sensitive material. They aren't explicit. They aren't inappropriate, or a topic that needs to be hidden behind closed doors and warnings. Do better.

  • ReivaVR commented  ·   ·  Report

    LGTBQ+ issues are not sensitive content or political.

    The only people who consider it such want us made silent as they work to make daily life more hostile to people who just want to be themselves and enjoyed their lives.
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