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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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  • sofipocky commented  ·   ·  Report

    Remove this, we are not a sensitive political issue. We are people.
  • Serrane_MTG commented  ·   ·  Report

    Get a new policy twitch, this ain't it. Don't further discrimination!
  • Perrydotto commented  ·   ·  Report

    I'm an LGBTQIA+ streamer and I am very much not keen on having my existence labeled as a "sensitive issue" as if I now need to be afraid of my own LGBTQIA+ tag and its potential repercussions. I don't want to warning-label my streams for being who I am.
  • autumnstea commented  ·   ·  Report

    What's next after this? Is being a skin color other than pale also on the chopping block?
  • Kaya_Kana commented  ·   ·  Report

    Could you not stigmatize people for their minority status or medical history? I'm pretty sure that's illegal.
  • Jujoe1 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch should not be censoring its users when they want to discuss "difficult topics" or whatever. If a viewer is uncomfortable with the discussion, they can leave and go watch someone else. The LGBTQ+ community are welcome in my chat bigots and racists are not.

  • Saethwr_the_Dragon commented  ·   ·  Report

    The right to exist without fear of being attacked for who you are is NOT a sensitive social issue, it's human rights.
    Do better.

  • natsuki_goes_baka commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is cencorship for those truley effected by lgbt issues,we didn't choose to be gay or trans and talking about it is simply part of our lives and how it effects us.
  • jorbs commented  ·   ·  Report

    saying things like that trans rights are human rights is not only not sensitive, but is also pertinent to the lives of many members of my audience. it would be insulting and cowardly for me to tag my stream as "sensitive" content while doing so.
  • Jingiz_wow commented  ·   ·  Report

    Isn't this just to protect viewers from countries where these topics aren't allowed?
  • train_tav commented  ·   ·  Report

    So.... which republican leader paid you guys off?
  • YunaAzures commented  ·   ·  Report

    As a trans woman you will not label me "sensitive social issues" and hide me a way just so you can make more cash on ads grow a backbone twitch and pick good side history you deicide with side your with the lgbtq or the the conservatives who want us gone do the right thing twitch and remove this.
  • Vodkafolie commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch should not be censoring its users when they want to discuss "difficult topics" or whatever. If a viewer is uncomfortable with the discussion, they can leave and go watch someone else.
    Targeting minority communities talking about their own life experience and deliberately forcing them behind a warning is bordering on discrimination (if it isn't already!) according to most countries laws.

  • TheGreenFire22 commented  ·   ·  Report

    That they had the audacity to include such a bigoted clause disgusts me to my core, whatever faith I had in Twitch is evaporating fast. The bare minimum is removing this and apologizing for it ever making it in there. Do better
  • rogueneko17 commented  ·   ·  Report

    This will be used by bad actors to mark LGBTQ+ people and to try and push them out of the site. who even thought that this was a good idea?!?

    remove the guidelines marking LGBTQ+ topics as a controversial issue because it will just be abused for hate.
  • owlmity commented  ·   ·  Report

    It is not political to discuss a living beings right to exist
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