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.
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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do0mfan
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I am human too, not political subject, wtf
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SingularCurve
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This Content Classification Guideline not only violates my United States Constitutional Rights Under the 1st amendment (2 counts speech, religion), 4th (unlawful seizure), 5th (due process), 9th, and 10th, if Twitch or Amazon were a government or governmental agency, but is another step towards trying to dehumanize people who just happen to be LGBT, Immigrant, etc. In other words it violates equal protection based on Sex, National Origin, and Age at the least. LGBT people tend to skew younger as we gain more rights and it becomes easier to exist in public. Note this does not mean we go away, it just means we are not known. WE will Still exist no matter what laws or content creation or whatever exist.
You cant paint us out.
People are people, no mater if we are LGBT+, Black, Brown, Disabled, etc. If you cut us, we all bleed, more importantly we all bleed the same color.
Just because some white rich men, Im specifically looking at you Jeff, and your friends and employees at the highest levels dont want us to exist doesnt mean we wont. Dont be that Tyrant, it never ends well for Tyrants. History always pulls them down.
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norarabbits
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Don't just add a tag so hateful people can choose to ignore and denylist our existence from their view. Your integrity as people and a company as a whole isn't worth their money, or acceptance.
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Atlantethan
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Remove this bullet point. My existence and the existence of others of my community should not be censored or controversial.
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KastorCaster
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What an absolutely ridiculous clause. What's next? Women can't talk about being women without it being "political"? Then people of other races? Then anyone who's not Christian?
Is Twitch building a neonazi platform or what?
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imlowkeydumb
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Put creators over advertisers! Come on Twitch.
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voiced435
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LGBTQ+ people and immigrants' lives shouldn't be considered a sensitive topic, all it does is isolate those people and make their existence seen odd and abnormal.
It also makes it difficult for LGBTQ+ people and immigrants to talk about day to day aspects of their lives without risking getting banned. -
jiraikeilucian
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I’m a human being, not a political topic. My existence shouldn’t be classified as political, much less a sensitive social issue.
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SayrissFae
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I’m a streamer just starting her gender transition and would like to keep my chat informed of my progress, me talking about bettering my life is not political, this policy does not make me feel safe to continue streaming on the platform
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terriblecacti
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The right to exist with dignity and respect should not be controversial. In a political climate where legislation has been introduced that would label queerness (especially being transgender) as sexually perverse, criminal, and deviant by nature, enshrining those ideas into everyday entertainment is dangerous. A difference in lived experience does not constitute censorship or deeming those experiences "controversial," especially those of an oppressed minority group going through one of the most malicious and targeted smear campaigns in recent years.
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arseholeirishman
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I am a human being, not a controversial political stance.
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Mudkiz
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this is certainly problematic as a significant amount of streamers are LGBTQ+ including a lot that i know and watch.
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fruitloops__1
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My existence should not EVER be a "sensitive" or "political" topic. I'm not "controversial"; I am human.
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GoddessWolfy
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Imagine existing, and being told you're controversial. That's wild.
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SentyPurr
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To label these as "sensitive" fundamentally places LGBTQ+, Immigrants, and women as uncomfortable subjects that users should be shielded from, intrinsically creating a dangerous narrative that, as ADameNamedAmy pointed out, would fast become a slippery slope for even existing in the platform.
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Oceanity
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Queer people existing is not political, women having control over their own bodies is not political, and people talking about the very real threats to their lives is not political.
The absolute gall to try to label discussion of people just trying to live their own lives with bodily autonomy when they are hurting NOONE as "overly political" while you give a slap on the wrist to one of your cash cows as they spout white national rhetoric and endorse a genocide with a mere TWO WEEK BAN is absolutely disgusting
Remove this awful clause
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hhiillaa
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My right to exist should not be up for debate.
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lugiasplash
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If straight people are allowed to exist without being labelled "controversial" then so should everyone else!
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pigeon5065
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Queer people's right to exist aren't "sensitive subjects". Putting us behind warning label is a considerable step back for this platform. This clause is discriminatory and implies there's room for debate on LGBTQIA+ rights. There isn't.
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Alekgator
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Remove the final bullet point from Article VII.
It's not hard.