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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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  • Jay33721 commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is blatant discrimination, and not just against LGBTQ+ people. They lumped race and religion into said "sensitive social issues" as well. Talk about silencing the voices of marginalized people! Absolutely disgusting.
  • maryjane_lane commented  ·   ·  Report

    ...Wonder what specifically led to this decision? Sounds a bit suss. Stop giving in to bigots, Twitch.
  • OrangeMonkey42 commented  ·   ·  Report

    LGBTQ Life is not a political or sensitive issue. It is the average everyday mundane existence of millions of people across the globe. Always has been and always will be.
  • klemonwolf commented  ·   ·  Report

    Don’t engage in activism over human lives, MY human life, is a ridiculous thing to flag people for. Don’t you understand how this could easily get out of hand, when someone who simply mentions their existence gets flagged for sensitive content? This is ridiculous, not to mention horrible timing with the state of the world, particularly the USA, right now. Disgusting.
  • KaerieP commented  ·   ·  Report

    The rule as proposed is horrible. While it's reasonable to ask people to tag graphicly violent or sexual content, or to remove harmful content, just existing as a marginalized group and talking about your experience is none of those things. I also work in content moderation and it's wholly inappropriate to ask people to label their lived experience behind a tag of someone else's devising on the off chance that people with the privilege of not thinking about these things might be made uncomfortable by frank talk. If streamers make that decision THEMSELVES, that's their choice. To have labels applied from "above" is just another disgusting face of hate and discrimination.
  • vsteinb commented  ·   ·  Report

    My existence is not a political statement
  • Solidplasma commented  ·   ·  Report

    As someone who is openly autistic, I definitely feel this paints with too broad a brush and tries to take away one of the only platforms I feel I can be myself on.
  • SmoLCatzZ commented  ·   ·  Report

    Having LGBTQ+ under this classification is wrong and should be removed. People's existence is not political and should not be "warned" under this system.

  • VariMelon commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hey look mom twitch thinks that my identity is just as controversial as war crimes!
  • Aerozae commented  ·   ·  Report

    Just because politics want to use the LGBTQ community as leverage in their campaigns doesn't make us part of it. We are people who want to live with the same chances as everyone else. Existence doesn't make us political. Being a minority doesn't make you a social issue.

  • Zombee_Robin commented  ·   ·  Report

    If this policy stays, I will leave the platform. Not watching not streaming.
  • AnotherIndieWriter commented  ·   ·  Report

    I feel like many folks here have said what I wanted to say much better. So I'll keep it simple. My existence is not a political statement. Thanks!
  • jaydev commented  ·   ·  Report

    Even with the benefit of the doubt, the bullet point in question is poorly worded. It'd be pretty great if, instead of further categorization of marginalized people - presumably to protect the snowflake sensibilities of bigots - Twitch could do more cool things to make people feel welcome and safe.
    Recently I've seen Twitch support a bunch of charity streamers, and it feels like hate raids are becoming more infrequent, so this seems like a giant step back.
  • EssayOfThoughts commented  ·   ·  Report

    That bullet point serves to try to exclude queer folk by applying rules. If you want to avoid "sensitive social issues" then ban bigotry, don't ban the people just trying to live their lives without hurting anyone.

  • starempire commented  ·   ·  Report

    At the least this is a well intentioned idea implemented in the worst possible way, at the worst this is actively trying to either destroy twitch as a platform or chase people of twitch for nothing less than the crime of existing.
    As is, this is both far to ambiguous in its wording if your stated intentions are true, and regardless of that both your intentions and reality would both ultimately be a source of harm, and only serve to discriminate. DO BETTER.
  • BekahMcCue commented  ·   ·  Report

    While there was a half-hearted attempt to say "if you don't engage in activism, you're fine," it's inherently unreasonable to expect people who are affected deterimentally by homophobia to NOT have a personal opinion on the matter, which WILL be construed as activism whether it is or not. There WILL be uneven enforcement of this targeting LGBT+ creators and not their homophobic counterparts.
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