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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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  • ToadFrameGaming commented  ·   ·  Report

    MY EXISTENCE AND SAFETY ARE NOT A SENSITIVE POLITICAL ISSUES

  • Xydexx commented  ·   ·  Report

    Trans Rights Are Human Rights! ❤
  • hydra98 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Man I love my friends being "Sensitive Issues"
    Absolutely against this
  • Anga_VT commented  ·   ·  Report

    Me existing is not a "sensitive social issue" for God's sake.
  • a_dogpgh commented  ·   ·  Report

    Politicizing identity is counterintuitive and forces people who exist outside of normative spaces to not be able to speak without classification because discussion of our lived reality is perceived as inherently political. And conflating it with the same politics as the divisiveness of electoral politics and the divide they create further isolates and stratifies us all.

    all discussion of our lived realities is politics, deeming that specific people discussing specific aspects of lived reality as specifically political only seeks to serve our otherisation and not our liberation.
  • Dashnir commented  ·   ·  Report

    To reduce someone's existence to a bullet point is not only dangerous beyond all conceivable beleif it's just down right horrid.

    This ain't it twitch
  • TheOtherTracy commented  ·   ·  Report

    Trans people and everyone else under the LGBT umbrella aren't political.
  • glitchsymphony commented  ·   ·  Report

    My life is not a sensitive social issue. As apart of the lgbt community and a woman this is not okay
  • thelolcano commented  ·   ·  Report

    The white cishet patriarchal stance that anyone that isn't like them talking about their life is too political is how we got into this **** show. The more we expose people to the fact that different people are valid, the more accepting they become.
  • osakanone commented  ·   ·  Report

    Talking about my own lived experience or right to exist isn't political, wtf?
  • phoenixindigodragon777 commented  ·   ·  Report

    I have protested to fight for LGBTQ+ Rights before and I'm going to continue to do it until It's done justice for everyone so you better fix it or prepare to lose nearly everything for this ruling. Besides is where you want to end your legacy like this?
  • BeyondWithinX commented  ·   ·  Report

    People shouldn't be a bullet point. Are we being serious now?
  • Birb_The_Bread_God commented  ·   ·  Report

    I didn’t know a persons rights were so controversial you fools, stop the nonsense and do be a *****
  • S1erra107 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hey Twitch, your platform is frequently used as a charity host, allowing people to raise funds for human rights organizations, unhoused groups, and lifting up those who need help. A massive amount of these charities and human rights groups are by definition political, and help victims of legislation that targets their rights.

    Are you saying that charities for the Trevor Project should be slapped with a warning label? Those pertain political legislation and victims of anti LGBTQ+ hate. What about Project Hope? Humanitarian aid for victims of war is by definition political. Should those charities be slapped with "sensitive social issues", thus decreasing their reach? Or even St. Jude, as the lack of healthcare in the US which forces the existence of charity funded children's hospitals instead of government funded healthcare. That's a political issue, should you slap down one of the biggest charities, GCX, which you yourself have donated to as a company on several occasions?

    This clause is harmful and will have demonstrable negative effects on most charities, as well as unfairly barring minority groups from simply speaking about their lives and experiences.

    Do better. Remove this now.

  • brisketbudget commented  ·   ·  Report

    I'm a trans woman, and it's ridiculous that you think talking about my life and experience is political. I'm just as human as anyone else, so quit trying to push my life into the sidelines!
  • indominus_lux commented  ·   ·  Report

    Being queer is not a political topic. Twitch does not have the right to determine who is allowed to talk about their lived experiences, and who doesn't.
  • Ace1diots commented  ·   ·  Report

    I am not political for just existing and being trans! Theres nothing Political about being Trans. There's nothing Political about being a drag queen. I shouldn't have to mark my streams as "political" for just being a person that happens to be trans.
  • finisfine commented  ·   ·  Report

    Well, I for one am happy with Twitch's new role as the thought police. Who better to decide what category issues fall in, who's fit to discuss them, and whose existence is a political issue than the people taking half your income for doing it?
  • BelladonnaTempest commented  ·   ·  Report

    Everyone’s right to exist shouldn’t be deemed political or labeled under such. We aren’t nor have we ever been a “sensitive social issue”.
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