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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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  • Leander_1_ commented  ·   ·  Report

    Is Twitch trying to sell itself to Russia or China? It seems like it. A deeply worrying development.
  • SalkinvonBach commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is simply appalling. Stop politicizing people's biology

  • GalileoMateo commented  ·   ·  Report

    Whatever ******* Xxionist trumpet wrote this **** should be fired :3
  • platinmoralle commented  ·   ·  Report

    When big streamers can get away with hate speech targeting minorities, something that was already against guidelines but simply not enforced, then that means that this rule would only target the minorities just trying to exist, while bigots are free to express themselves.
  • gmc3000 commented  ·   ·  Report

    As a queer individual I am very much disappointed in Twitch's appeasing of right-wing extremists by adding this to their ToC. By catering to weirdos you are giving a strong message that I am not welcome on your platform.
  • kople101366 commented  ·   ·  Report

    this is going to have a chilling effect on people who are in the pride community
  • ZenBooda commented  ·   ·  Report

    If people can talk about their heterosexual lives, then talking about gay lives shouldn't be considered political.

  • ladychiopet commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is genuinely one of the most inappropriate additions to a rule I've ever seen. The existence of LGBT+ people is not a sensitive subject that requires moderation.

  • Azhrarn commented  ·   ·  Report

    Making my very existence a restricted topic is definitely not the right way to take this Twitch. All people have the right to exist, it should not be filtered out and discarded.
  • HellhoundTifa commented  ·   ·  Report

    My existence as a Lesbian Trans Woman is not "socially sensitive" or "political". My rights are not up for debate. Twitch needs to reverse this, this will hurt so many of my fellow LGBTQIA+ people on the platform.
  • gunstickulm commented  ·   ·  Report

    Talk about cancel culture. Yeah, this is cancel culture. Oh the poor lonely consevative people, don't send them streams about the real world!
    Lets change the whole platform for that.

  • s3tup5 commented  ·   ·  Report

    To insist that queer people hide themselves or hide any discussion of their personal lives or else get warned/ labeled or worse, when heterosexual people can speak freely of their own personal lives is clear discrimination and queerphobia.
  • annamarabella commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch butt out of queer folks’ lives and fix your infrastructure issues instead challenge
  • ak_121327 commented  ·   ·  Report

    That was just straight up bs what they did
  • theOctosketti commented  ·   ·  Report

    Can you maybe not do that?
    I like being seen without my existence being politicised
  • derekaxelrose commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch policy makers: NOTHING about LGBTQ+ is divisive and nothing with LGBTQ+ is a political issue that needs to be flagged. People existing and having equal rights is not a political issue, nor is it something to be flagged where they try to conduct their business to get money for their livelihood. Nothing should be done to increase the comfort for those who are anti-LGBTQ+. Sexual orientation is literally a protected class in the USA. Are you out of your ****** mind?? This new policy idea should be redacted immediately unless you’d like a massive swath of organized creators and patrons who spend money here to pull out from Prime and Twitch. Rest assured, I do mean that we are already organized and ready to act. Your call if you want to want to watch the amount of cumulative money you get from everything connected to Prime and Twitch to dive off a cliff.
  • Monunga commented  ·   ·  Report

    Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Enough said.
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