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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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  • slipnslideblog commented  ·   ·  Report

    If I want to talk about planning my gay wedding while I stream a game or stream a romance game and go down a route that centers a gay relationship. I want to talk about funny stories that being transgender and transitioning in the workplace has caused. These things are part of my life and I want to talk about them. A subject matter being LGBTQ+ is not a sensitive social issue. To call it that is insulting since it legitimizes homophobes saying LGBTQ+ existing is a threat and dangerous to children and vulnerable individuals.
    Being queer is a personal trait like enjoying mint or having blonde hair. This is insulting. Whatever prompted this change I suggest reconsidering and thinking about this and what it means to do this.
  • sombrawateva commented  ·   ·  Report

    My life and the lives of people I love ate absolutely not political!!
  • maydayfromspace commented  ·   ·  Report

    This policy will only serve to sanitize trans and queer presence on the platform, not obscure trauma from those who wish to avoid it. The Tumblr **** ban of 2018 and the current controversy surrounding the banning and censorship of transfeminine accounts in unscrutinized, generic swathes are two excellent case studies, and set precedent for the results the above listed policies will provide. Thusly, if the stated goals of these policies reflect the actual inteded effect of them, they MUST be changedml; and if thye are not, then the actual goal of these policies can ONLY be trans and queer exclusion from Twitch as a platform.
  • DataDrain commented  ·   ·  Report

    People existing shouldn't be considered "political". End of story.
  • DrShotgunSurgery commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please do not cater to bigots.

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    ***LGBTQ+ people's existences are not political***
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  • kimikawa commented  ·   ·  Report

    I sure do love my very existence being a "sensitive social issue". /s
  • Cyanangel commented  ·   ·  Report

    My existence should not be considered controversial

  • MysidiaVeil commented  ·   ·  Report

    "If they intersect, it's a political issue"-- But this rule wouldn't be applied only to the intersection. Wherever rules like this exist, simply mentioning who you live with or showing a selfie get labelled as "political" if it happens to be a gay partner or you are transitioning. People just sharing everyday parts of their lives are labelled with political activity, because for some others it feels like a political threat that these people exist.
  • itsWisch commented  ·   ·  Report

    When a bunch of jackasses start jumping up and down and shouting that "those people" (whoever the boogeyman of the day happens to be) need to be stripped of rights, the correct move is to tell them to shut up, not pretend they have a point and that those peoples' existence is now an impolite political topic.
  • kotc_real commented  ·   ·  Report

    Is there a real good reason for this clause to exist at all?? What purpose could this possibly serve other than for censorship
  • transientmind commented  ·   ·  Report

    Who are LGBTQ+ a 'sensitive issue' for? Bigots. Just bigots. No-one else. Do NOT cater to bigots.

  • onanimasu commented  ·   ·  Report

    Be with and ahead of the cultural wave not behind it twitch.
  • miss_cataclysm commented  ·   ·  Report

    I spent my entire primary and secondary education under Section 28 in the UK, and what I learned most of all is that when you suppress open discussion of these issues, all you do is elevate rumour, myth, assumption, stereotype and prejudice. All you do is encourage insinuation and innuendo. All you do is take people's stories out of their own mouths and replace them with the wild inventions of people who don't know what they're talking about.
  • RufusTheSable commented  ·   ·  Report

    Queer people deserve the same free speech everyone else gets, and this takes that away from us
  • CathalMeas commented  ·   ·  Report

    Y'all rolled back the nudity clause faster for less push back 💀
  • prettyinpinkcatgamer commented  ·   ·  Report

    if you think a stream needs to be labeled cuz it's being done by a trans person then I hope your **** gets stuck in a paper shredder and you bleed to death you ******* nazi
  • kitemans commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is the dumbest idea you hacks have ever conjured from the dumpster fires that are your brains, and that's not exaggeration. Remove the button, you wretched fools.

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