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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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  • ever_entropy commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is ridiculous. If I casually mention wanting a hysterectomy because I'm worried about the US presidential election, that's suddenly a "sensitive topic"? What about if the game itself deals with these things? Am I supposed to just not address it in case I get censored? Good luck playing Life is Strange or Venba I guess
  • Erikstrong commented  ·   ·  Report

    i don't think that lgbtq streamers should be labeled as political

  • Simmons572 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Many of my lgbtq+ friends deal with harrasment IRL for just existing. Just trying to live their lives. By setting this standard, you are essentially stating that you can profile and silence individuals based on their existence. This is a deporable precedent, and should not be permitted on this platform.
  • tacosquare_dev commented  ·   ·  Report

    sensitive social issues being a tag is okay but to group war with being gay is just wild

  • SaltySweetRen commented  ·   ·  Report

    I literally just want to exist in peace. That shouldn't be too much to ask, but apparently my existence is too political.

  • Joobles commented  ·   ·  Report

    How silly an idea is this? If lgbtq+ people are considered a sensitive social issue and not to be streamed, that's going to disqualify an astonishing number of games; Stardew Valley, Baldur's Gate 3, Borderlands 3, and many, many more. How did this even get added to the CCG?
  • seona13 commented  ·   ·  Report

    This should not even be a question. Queer people, queer issues, and anything else relating to "not the norm" should NOT be considered political, explicit, or a "sensitive social issue". I'm not even queer and I can recognise that fact.
  • astralsabbat commented  ·   ·  Report

    People shouldn't have to censor their identities to stream on your platform. A rule like this will only open up streamers to abuse through the reporting system, and endanger their livelihoods having to mark their streams, which will turn away viewers and likely end up with advertisers pulling off streams.

  • thesapphicstreamer commented  ·   ·  Report

    I am honestly disgusted that this even exists as a thing from twitch. Queer people are people and not a "sensitive" "issue"
  • haveyouseenblue commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is horrible. I thought we were past the point of queer people having to censor their existence. It's so saddening that this is something they're actually trying to do.
  • AmbroseTeeVee commented  ·   ·  Report

    can y'all have ONE day where you don't pander to facists
  • BaconBased commented  ·   ·  Report

    There’s only, like, one streamer that I watch on Twitch that isn’t LGBTQ+, and he has a ton of LGBTQ+ friends on his stream all the time. With them being pushed to the margins by nonsensical decisions such as this, the only reason that I have to even use Twitch—that is, to watch the people who stream on it—evaporates.
  • MailRights_USPS commented  ·   ·  Report

    Who is asking for this, specifically? Is it advertisers? If so, which ones? Why should we trust Twitch if accountability is a one way street?
  • EikoTime commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yall should either specify what is considered sensitive or remove it.
  • SageStoryteller commented  ·   ·  Report

    I am not an LGBTQ+ person, but most of my fellow streamers and my audience are. They are my friends, my neighbors, my found family, and sometimes even folks I'm related to. They should not need to hide their identities or be forced to omit certain topics from our streams because their speech is seen as "sensitive social issues." And they should not be segregated to a corner of the internet where they're removed from being seen from the front page or recommendations, either.

    The idea that these folks' lives should be separated off and their experiences shouldn't be discussed will not only impact their channels, but also their content (if they're making LGBT art, for example), their analysis of cis-hetero stories through a queer lens (which can be anything from games to movies to literature), to accidentally flagging channels because "Oh hey I'm running a tabletop RPG and whoops flag my channel for sensitive topics because I introduced a gay NPC" is completely amoral and deeply unsettling.

    Please remove this point from Article VII. It has farther reaching repercussions than you think it does. It will, given enough time, stifle discussions of many issues and will impact many more channels that even tangentially touch upon these topics, much less any channels that centrally focus around them.
  • yebby__ commented  ·   ·  Report

    ok, so not only am I getting **** on by my own country I gave my time to for being LGBTQ+, the streaming site I've used for most of my career streaming is also giving me ****. Are you kidding me?
  • Hiblast59 commented  ·   ·  Report

    A majority of the streamers that I actually enjoy are LGBTQ+, and they are just people. Punishing them for something as simple as mentioning their partner is a terrible idea.
  • AutumnBaobanTree commented  ·   ·  Report

    my existance is not the problem. i will NOT remain on twitch if it is treated as such.

    leave marginalized groups alone. if they're concerned about uproar from doing so, maybe they should take care of the ones campaiging for our eradication instead.
  • Packwolf_445 commented  ·   ·  Report

    The fact that this practically labels entire people talking about themselves and their lives as political and therefore a "sensitive topic" akin to war and foreign relations debates is insane.
  • teusUnderscore commented  ·   ·  Report

    the only reason you would ever consider people's existence as political and sensitive is for the purpose of ostracizing them. my existence is not a sensitive topic
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