It's pathetic that Twitch allowed this idea of theirs to ever reach our eyes. The people responsible for this should be ashamed of themselves

Are y'all relying on outrage to draft-edit your policies at this point? How did this ever reach us? People will call my mere existence a sensitive or political issue if it'll get me to shut up in my own space. I shouldn't have to brand myself "unsafe for advertisers" or needing a content warning just to exist on my own stream.

You're also asking for a ton of administrative **** as people report the giant charity events that run on your service for not flagging. Should Summer Games Done Quick have to use this flag because it benefits a charity vocal about Gaza? What would that do to your ad surfacing?

So yeah even if you don't care about the massive percentage of LGBTQ+ streamers you're disenfranchising with this, this is still a half-cooked idea that's going to bite you in the Business Unit repeatedly.

Remove it.

talking about our experience as queer people *inevitably* touches 'sensitive social issues'—which are only 'sensitive' to those who hate our existence but are too afraid to admit it.

taking away our right to share our voices by the proxy of less advertisers is more than deeply unethical, it's a business blunder. does twitch really want its most creative users and their supporters to move elsewhere?

It's already wrong that Twitch is being accused of antisemitism for allowing people who oppose the systematic slaughter of an estimated 200,000 people to vocally discuss and oppose such a tragedy.

I'm not sure I would want to add on to accusations of antisemitism that you have now created a safe space where transphobes, homophobes, racists, sexists, and bigots in general will never feel uncomfortable due to the existence of or support of people in those communities now being a "sensitive topic".

If you want to be cowards and hide political conversation behind a veil that's one thing, but forcing LGBTQIA+ people back into the digital closet to please your advertisers sets a horrific precedent. Not allowing women to speak on their own human rights is also abhorrent.

You don't silence hate by silencing those who are hated. You only empower those who think that topics of LGBTQIA+ rights and womens rights should somehow be in question. This is blatant discrimination against people belonging to protected classes to make rules specifically targeting even discussing them.

There's no place for hate on this site, but discussion of reality being silenced or hidden will be the death of this site, caving to trolls who would love to see LGBTQIA+ people unable to speak on their own lives and struggles, and to trolls that want discussion of one of the greatest international injustices of our time silenced as well.

I hope for both your sake and the sake of all marginalized streamers and viewers that you heavily revise all of this.

Holy moly what are they thinking

I know they’re just doing this in an attempt to protect themselves from the American Nazi Party (formerly Republicans)—or maybe to join them—but this is so clearly ******** I have a very hard time imaging they’ll reverse it. Or that they’ll be any less surprised when the leopards eat their face too.

My existence is not political. My existence is not a sensitive topic.

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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."

I echo this completely, please do not cater to bigots, extreme groups or think we dont matter. Reword or remove that final point as we deserve to exist without difficulty or fighting.

I do not want to stream on a platform where me simply existing is okay, but some of my fellow streamers simply existing is considered a 'sensitive political issue'. That's ridiculous, and not what I'd expect coming from a company based in a country that claims to value freedom above all else.

The only people who see LGBTQ+ as "political" are the same people who want us dead. Please remove this

This will only hurt trans and LGBTQ creators. Just living our normal lives should not be deemed as a sensitive social issue. We just want to create content like everyone else and make people happy. The final bullet point gives individuals fuel for hate. My life and the lives of many others is not a sensitive social issue.

- discussing ideological or socio-political views on topics like gender, race, sexuality or religion

additionally, remove the above. all things considered true by anyone ever about any of the above topics is socio-political.
Limiting visibility of these via "explicit content" label, is essentially an act of shadowbanning these topics.

Gender, is socio-political especially with regards to the people and laws attempting to regulate it. Views on one's personal gender, what kind of ideas around it one ascribes to etc. etc. are socio-political.
Restricting this means restricting everyday conversation about it.

Another example, Race. It is a concept completely constructed for exclusively socio-political purposes, namely to justify white supremacy. Even stating this abject truth, or how it expresses itself in the daily experience of many POC (which again, is just regular conversation, it's things that come up when one talks about their day) would be limited with these rules.

Existing as a trans creator should not automatically deemed me as "sensitive" just because people do not want to acknowledge that we exist. We already have enough issues trying to exist as is, cresting content should not be one of them.

LGBTQ+ people wanting to exist without fear or persecution isn't an issue except to people that want us dead. Don't give in to the demands of bigots, Twitch.

The existence and rights of marginalised communities are NOT political. This clause needs to be removed immediately as it will only result in further abuse of those marginalised communities. You can’t create guilds to platform us and then lock us behind a content filter. Our existence is not a sensitive social issue

As a queer, trans, AFAB person, my life is not a "sensitive issue". While i understand that Twitch is trying to cover all sides of arguments to keep Live's civil this is not how to do so. This tell their streamers who are woman, who are LGBTQ+, who are immigrants, that we are too controversial for their platform and opens a door for those wanting to opress our rights. It allows the more conservative minded people out there to point and go "see, these people are wrong because this policy says theyre controversial" This final bullet point needs removal, or rewording so that it is instead about discussions that are unhelpful, inappropriate/immature, non-personal [ie: not being queer, AFAB, or an immigrant] Because the article as a whole silences the voices impacted by these events like those trying to raise funds for Palestine, people wanting to educate Americans on where to vote, and so much more.

While this is a moderation took that Twitch is trying to use with the 2024 American election coming to a head, this is instead silencing minorities/marginalized groups, and uplifting the opinions of those who are already screaming above us. Please listen to those affected and reword/rework this article as whole!!

twitch may as well remove fundraising from its site then - bc all of that is considered a sensitive social issue

I'm a queer trans streamer. My life isn't "a sensitive social issue." The only issue is the people that want to prevent me, and others like myself, from existing. We exist, we are not a "sensitive social issue." We are human beings that want to keep our rights, and deserve respect.

Remove this clause immediately. These topics, and our lives, are not “sensitive social issues”.

Twitch admins, remove this point of the policy.
20 years ago I met a man whose parents were born in the 1920s, and are Jewish, and his stepfather was Japanese, during the 1940s internment. They had their rights to live become "sensitive political topics", and they are all lucky to be alive.

And after I married the mam whose family is so rife with "sensitive political topics", I began to undo the emotional harm my family had done when raising me, which came to a head those 20 years ago, when I learned my father was afraid I would come out on the LGBT Spectrum as I was afraid he'd been a closed minded bigot.
We both learned we were absolutely correct.
Yet despite all this, if I ever cared about streaming on your platform, I would hardly have gone out of my way to dredge up these "sensitive political topics ", but I bring them up now because I KNOW when people are being marginalized, and when and how it is dangerous. And it is always immoral.
We are telling you, *I* am telling you, DO NOT DO THIS.

I am speaking and I will not stutter or stop.

Genuinely confused how this change got past the draft phase.