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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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  • GildedSiren commented  ·   ·  Report

    Queerness is not a sensitive social issue. Race is not a sensitive social issue. Poverty is not a sensitive social issue.

    You know what is? Homophobia. Transphobia. Blatant racism. Calling for people to be "othered" and "dealt with".

    Punish those who actually do BAD when discussing these topics (looking at you, Asmongold), don't just put blanket coverage that FURTHER segregates and disenfranchises people who are already told that we're less than human, that we're demons, that we deserve to be rounded up and taken out of society.
  • Hylofear commented  ·   ·  Report

    LGBT+ rights are human rights. The only way Twitch could consider them a "sensitive topic" is if they want to entertain the idea that LGBT+ people don't deserve HUMAN rights.
  • deltaupright commented  ·   ·  Report

    LGBTQ+ people, immigrants, and women discussing very basic information about their lives is not a "sensitive social issue" and treating it as such accomplishes nothing but forcing marginalized people out of public life. The policy not only fails to protect users from "explicit content" it has the opposite effect and makes marginalized members of the community even more vulnerable.
  • BugTrainerVirus commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yall have GOT to remove this bullet point. Twitch has a huge LGBT user platform and you're about to alienate a massive portion of your audience & userbase
  • wrenwhite commented  ·   ·  Report

    queerness itself should not be considered a "sensitive topic." our existence is not inherently political or sensitive.
  • trustmeiexist commented  ·   ·  Report

    Being trans or gay is not akin to war. This is disgusting. I should not have to hide to appease anyone. I am both trans and gay, and will never not be.

  • blue_seer commented  ·   ·  Report

    You're basically outlawing a trans user. Not cool at all

  • CrimsonFireKat commented  ·   ·  Report

    this is insane. this sounds like a bad prank. what the heck.

    this is literally what people predicted would happen when they started censoring the internet and that's scary
  • noire_sinister commented  ·   ·  Report

    Frankly, I think it's bull that Twitch is trying to make users label discussion of any of these important aspects of daily life for millions of people as "sensitive topics" that could negatively impact their stream, including but not limited to their race, their religion, their gender, their sexuality, and/or their immigration status. The qualms of large advertisers should not be placed above the lived experiences of the streamers who make the platform viable in the first place.
  • cake_knight05 commented  ·   ·  Report

    It is incredibly dehumanizing and disrespectful to place real people who are just trying go about their lives on the same level as topics such as war and 9/11
  • MiannaStar commented  ·   ·  Report

    TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS. REMOVE THIS. PROTECT LGBTQ STREAMERS.
  • ToastyMcCoast commented  ·   ·  Report

    Having the idea that the LGBTQ community is the same as global conflict is seriously twisted. People should have the right to be who they are without discrimination or backlash. This new rule is a huge step backwards. Like what the heck? We're supposed to be equal and united, not divided like this rule is making us be. This rule will give power to twisted minds who want to cause harm to people just because of them being themselves. I don't want people's lives put in danger cause of this.
  • chiiri_h commented  ·   ·  Report

    I am trans. I am gay.

    Would I have to mark every single one of my streams as sensitive? If I talk about my personal life, my day to day as a gay trans person, and forgot to mark my streams as such would I be getting marks against my account for merely existing as I do?

    This is a ludicrous content policy to even think of putting forward. My existing is not political. My existing is not explicit. My existing is not a 'sensitive' issue: People can handle the fact that others different than them exist. If you truly want a platform that people feel welcome, you need to not mark us as other, as controversial, or allow the VERY slippery slope to start that we are explicit. This is how it starts. This is how it ALWAYS starts that gay and trans folks are pushed off of platforms and bigotry thrives- Stomp it out before it starts.

    The fact that this was even put forward was absurd and a shame- Straight people don't have to deal with this.
  • linkopenschest_wav commented  ·   ·  Report

    Talking about LGBTQIA+ people is not a sensitive issue anymore than talking about straight people is a sensitive issue. This policy is discriminatory.
  • GirlonCloud9 commented  ·   ·  Report

    I have two moms, I talk about my life on my stream. Their existence isn’t a sensitive or political issue. The existence of my nonbinary friends/mods and viewers isn’t a sensitive or political issue. You can’t just choose which groups of people are inherently unacceptable to discuss on stream. I have a “safespace” tag on my stream. This rule is taking away my power as a streamer to actually provide a safe space for my community, and that’s unacceptable.

  • sablekyu commented  ·   ·  Report

    I'm a trans streamer like many others on the platform. My existence isn't a debate or a statement. Twitch should be ashamed for prioritizing monetization on their platform over LGBTQ identities and lives.

  • Himitsu_Yami commented  ·   ·  Report

    As a trans woman, this is actually awful. This is basically saying my entire existence is a "controversial topic" on par with war, military action, and similar. Incredibly dehumanizing to have one's entire existence considered controversial
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