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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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  • PAINjpeg commented  ·   ·  Report

    stop silencing voices, you arsenuts
  • Esmae_Solace commented  ·   ·  Report

    streaming while trans shouldn't be considered political
  • starlocked01 commented  ·   ·  Report

    This clause would kill my twitch streaming career before it even had a chance to build. None of these issues are "sensitive social issues" but aspects of humanity made worse by people treating others as sub human. Please remove this language and reconsider how it will affect several of your most popular streamers who make you the most money.
  • auxi_demon_ commented  ·   ·  Report

    Man twitch is gonna crash by the end of the decade with only 300 streamers.

  • nezclaw commented  ·   ·  Report

    a significant chunk of your userbase is LGBTQ+ or otherwise. this will alienate a lot of them, and a lot of your viewers.
  • captaincealaigh commented  ·   ·  Report

    MY EXISTENCE IS NOT A POLITICAL ISSUE YOU IMBECILIC GOBLIN MONKEYS. The fact that you have all decided to group the mere existence of groups of people with things like war and political beliefs is indescribably idiotic, and on a revenue side of things you are alienating a huge portion of your audience.

  • pttgx4 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch needs to publicly discuss how this blatantly offensive and derogatory language ended up in their guidelines.
  • nochisan commented  ·   ·  Report

    This will only lead to false mass-reporting by bad actors who want to run queer people out of society entirely.
  • hexwitch commented  ·   ·  Report

    An openly queer/LGBT+ person simply talking about their experiences should not be labeled as a "sensitive social issue". This is an incredibly regressive stance to take, and it's frustrating and infuriating to have my existence politicized and censored. Please, get rid of this clause.
  • runie_mint commented  ·   ·  Report

    People's existence is not a political issue.
  • NimbusCould commented  ·   ·  Report

    If this bullet point gets added I'm switching to YouTube, and that's really saying something bc they're also lacking common sense
  • naoh_causticsoda_naoh commented  ·   ·  Report

    Being LGBTQIA2S+ is not a "sensitive social issue"... It's a fact of life.

    Being LGBTQIA2S+ is not a political issue... It's a fact of life.
  • imhere365 commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is ridiculous, it's 2024 and we're still dealing with this ****.
  • goodolsammieeee commented  ·   ·  Report

    my existence isn't political just because i'm transmasc. only the bad actors really give a **** what my genitals look like.
  • TwitchTheNinja0730 commented  ·   ·  Report

    As someone who loved supporting his friends on Twitch and wanted to express himself using Twitch, I am appalled and offended at this censorship.

    I am human. We are human. We are not going anywhere. We are people and we want to live our lives.
  • SkylerStarstrucK commented  ·   ·  Report

    I'm LGBTQ+, namely on the Asexual spectrum, this is absolutely awful! I'm a female, does talking about my experience with Endometriosis mean I have to CENSOR MY EXISTANCE?!
  • kevtsuboi commented  ·   ·  Report

    Absolutely disgusting. Existing as a queer person is not a “sensitive social issue”. Take this down immediately. Let people just live their lives ffs.
  • bigpeepis commented  ·   ·  Report

    If being queer is sensitive politics then so is being cishet. If having a ****** and caring about what happens to it is political then so is having testies. If speaking on being an immigrant is not allowed then neither should speaking on being born in the country in which you reside. Existence is inherently political and seeking to silence minorities only serves the hegemony and uplifts white supremacy. ********
  • EddwardTheSeventhWizard commented  ·   ·  Report

    I was genuinely considering streaming but I can’t exist as a trans man how the **** am I going to do that?
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