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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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  • G3R064 commented  ·   ·  Report

    My life isnt a political issue. The ISSUE is people telling me i am not a person and i dont deserve rights or my life. If you do this, where are the tags for religion as misinformation? That is something people can debate. YOU CAN NOT DEBATE A PERSON'S LIFE.
  • volcanicvents commented  ·   ·  Report

    Did Elon buy Twitch? Because this feels just like his decision to classify the term “cis” as hate speech. Stop ceding your platform to the panic and hysterics of the most boring and hateful among us, dang.

  • intergalactic_fox commented  ·   ·  Report

    People being alive and living their lives is not a sensitive or political issue. Why do we keep coming back to this. I am so tired.
  • izzylobo commented  ·   ·  Report

    being queer should not be an inherently political issue, and rules like this - beyond any inherent and inevitable abuse they will be used to facilitate - do nothing to help in removing whatever inherent political status that one's gender, sexuality, etc. has because of shortcomings in modern society.

  • ray_3424 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Politics and Sensitive Social Issues as-framed within the Content Classification System is classic bad faith gaming community shorthand for, 'Don't talk about whatever makes the worst people we all know mildly uncomfortable.', and it will be used basically exclusively for the purpose of suppressing groups that are already subjected to harassment and mass-reporting for existing.

    Fix it.
  • glitchsaur commented  ·   ·  Report

    Our existence is not a "sensitive social issue"
  • into_guitar commented  ·   ·  Report

    this is extremely disgusting

    What a terrible idea, whoever came up with that classification should feel deeply ashamed
  • echopraxes commented  ·   ·  Report

    My existence is not a political issue, thanks. I shouldn't have to flag my stream to talk about my life and this rule is way too vaguely worded.
  • shadow_map_ commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch is currently a valuable social network site, this would utterly destroy the safety of use for an enormous group of the user base. This rule is so vague it will be abused and will hurt people that are already very vulnerable.
  • GrimGoblin47 commented  ·   ·  Report

    This label is a vile and craven attempt to legislate LGBTQ+ people out of another online space and one that plays into awful stereotype that LGBTQ+ people's mere existence is inherently "deviant" or "sexual", which is just plain bigotry.
  • Gamer_Grill475 commented  ·   ·  Report

    The fact that this is even being considered is such a gamer™ moment
  • ashermiss commented  ·   ·  Report

    I will almost certainly stop using twitch if this goes into effect, which is a shame as I've been getting more involved in the last year. This type of rule will help alt-right bigots at the expense of any and all minority streamers/viewers.
  • Zeno_Salazar011 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Our existence isn't political, but singling us out to behave as you wish does make it political. If people aren't comfortable with someone suddenly revealing they are not straight or cis then they can leave.

  • ricecakezop commented  ·   ·  Report

    Far too broad and non-specific, easy to mis-use. Who's to decide what's sensitive? How does one enforce that across a broad spectrum of content? Will that change depending on the CEO? The advertisers? The payment processors?
    Specificity is vital for rules like this. If you actually want to exclude creators, do it, and reap the consequences.

  • BebyDregan commented  ·   ·  Report

    Wild to me that this even needs to be put up for debate. Shame on you Twitch for forcing us to put up this for a vote when these issues regard basic human rights that should in no way be censored or suppressed . It's not political to want to live in peace without fear of discrimination. We exist, you quite literally cannot deny that. And you most certainly cannot force us back into the shadows no matter how much you evidently wish to do so.
  • gaesnek commented  ·   ·  Report

    Honestly remove the entire f***ing thing. I get that twitch is actively running at a loss but there are better ways to get more money than appealing to advertisers through bigotted censorship.
  • chacha_savage commented  ·   ·  Report

    The idea that LGBT people have to flag themselves as controversial just for being themselves and making content related to their identity is insane.
    This is just censorship with extra steps
  • leafcuter commented  ·   ·  Report

    If Twitch seriously considers adding this in full then I hope to ******* god they stop with their ******** "oooooh we care sooooooo muuuuuuuuuch about our queer creators!", because how the **** can you even think of an idea like this? It's absolutely disgusting that mine and other queer people's identities are considered a ******* political issue.

    I'M NOT A POLITICAL ISSUE I'M A HUMAN ******* PERSON.
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