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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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  • shannacrankypants commented  ·   ·  Report

    I AM NOT A SENSITIVE TOPIC. I AM A HUMAN BEING AND MY VOICE WILL NOT BE SILENCED!

    I hope you have trouble sleeping at night.
  • FlyingBrickyard commented  ·   ·  Report

    My existence and right to exist is NOT "socio-political ideology", and to suggest such is insulting and dehumanizing in the extreme.

  • Trimventurez commented  ·   ·  Report

    When you limit the ability to silence a group that is and has been historically underrepresented and under privileged you not only limit power to those who look or act a certain way you perpetuate the issues that this is trying to solve. Please understand that my existance and basic rights are not a social issue when I am owed the same rights as my neighbors as a citizen.

  • FaeAlicia commented  ·   ·  Report

    My existence is not controversial nor sensitive. It's not my fault a relative minority has such a loud voice to try to claim otherwise. The rules, as currently read, say I can be banned for just saying I'm trans in a stream that isn't in the "politics" category. That's utterly ridiculous and out of touch with reality. Discussing my existence is no different than discussing the existence of any other man, woman, or any other gender. It's not political. It's factual reality.
  • GnomePickles commented  ·   ·  Report

    When you label anyone's existence as, "politically sensitive," you other them. You make it known that they are undesirable and that it is ok to fear them, to hate them, and to think of them as lesser.
  • ArcanePriest commented  ·   ·  Report

    The inclusion of this bullet point in the first place flies in the face of creating the Pride Guild, moving away from inclusivity of marginalized people and instead hiding us away behind a dehumanizing label.
  • WitchyTQ commented  ·   ·  Report

    The label is harmful and creates a target on the streamers who you, Twitch, will require to use it. This labelling will create a larger environment for direct attacks on people, their communities, and in the end make your life harder with the work and backlash that is to come. Existence as the person you are, should not make it unsafe to live. And it shouldn't make it unsafe to stream.
  • LKthefox commented  ·   ·  Report

    I do not like politics in the slightest because it is simply there to divide people. LGBT is NOT politics. The only division in LGBT are people who hate us that are actively dividing us from many things in the real world, and it now it seems to be dividing us from simply existing on a streaming platform. This is disgusting. I knew Twitch had issues but this is extremely disappointing on their part.

    My existence, my life, and all my friends and communities lives are NOT political, we are just trying to live. Please do the right thing and remove it. This is truly disgusting behavior, Twitch.

  • CobaltYoshi27 commented  ·   ·  Report

    I completely agree with the post. These topics that are being discussed above aren't political issues, one side (the wrong side) is just choosing to make it political.
  • LolotovCocktail commented  ·   ·  Report

    I got a warning just for talking about the TOS. This is insane
  • SquidHominid commented  ·   ·  Report

    Agree with all of this. Under this policy, someone could reasonably report my stream as 'discussing ideological or socio-political views on topics like gender, race, sexuality, or religion' just because I have a 'she/her' image on my overlay in trans flag colors. This is Twitch legislating the existence of people who use its platform.
  • TraaansFem commented  ·   ·  Report

    Intentionally or not, this policy is a targeted attack on the LGBTQIA+ community. People whose lives are only sustained by streaming in a safe environment, who depend on twitch payments, who are at risk of being attacked if they leave their house simply because they exist as part of a minority under attack by right wing extremists should not be punished for the actions of those bigots. Remove the bullet point and avoid culpability in murder by financial deprivation of vulnerable people whose very existence is a common sense fact, and not a political debate.
  • StargazerKG commented  ·   ·  Report

    Deeming the existence of LGBTQ+ peoples as "political" only serves to other them and try to erase them. Not a good look at all.
  • GuyBitesAtGames commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch, this is discrimination. If talking about one's marriage is explicit then it needs to apply no matter who their spouse is. Y'all have not even sorted out the hate raid issues and now you're giving bad actors another tool to go after marginalized creators. This is gross.
  • LemmaEOF commented  ·   ·  Report

    My existence is not a sensitive social issue. These rules are utterly unprofessional and exist only to make the worst kind of people feel happy with themselves.
  • SinfireTitan commented  ·   ·  Report

    LGBTQ existence is not a political issue, regardless of how much right-wing influencers try to make it one.
  • Emtenn commented  ·   ·  Report

    Existence is not political.

  • comebackhandaxe commented  ·   ·  Report

    So like does Twitch not realize that acting like the mention of LGBTQ+ existence is Political Content is unto itself a very pointed and worrying political statement of their own?

  • ForageFox commented  ·   ·  Report

    I am gonna go feral if Twitch keeps trying to uplift bigots with their policies. TWITCH IS NOT KICK.
  • Grivinex commented  ·   ·  Report

    Regardless of intention this policy makes my and billions of other human's existences into a political issue when we're all just people who want to live and have a human experience.

    Life is sensitive. It's okay if it's sensitive. Advertisers seem to only want to talk about "product". Not life, death, or anything that is beautiful.

    Logistically this creates problems for everyone.
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