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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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  • Yuuki_Watage commented  ·   ·  Report

    I am Trangender and proud. We are not controversial. We are not political. We are human beings.

  • mellow113 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Political statements and gender identity are not the same things. If they intersect, then it is still not an LGBTQ+ issue you have, but a politics issue.

    Stop conflating. Cease appeasing the snowflake conservatives. Let people be people.
  • lifeseekingtruth commented  ·   ·  Report

    My son's existence as a trans person is NOT a "sensitive social issue." I find this bullet point *deeply* troubling and offensive. It should be removed immediately.
  • Corpseductor commented  ·   ·  Report

    People's lives, their very existence shouldn't ever be considered any sort of 'sensitive social issue', or anything at all. Let people live their lives, and just leave them alone. To allow them to even exist as a political subject is to place them in a state of danger, to suggest that they don't deserve the right to exist, are abnormal, are 'other'.

    It's even more disgusting to think that it's possible that these issues are brought here by actors, whos opinions in the grand scheme of life should mean absolutely nothing. Use your head, Twitch. Show us you care about your users.
  • katriinamari commented  ·   ·  Report

    the discussion of lgbtq people should be a nonpartisan nonpolitical issue. it's human rights. we shouldn't be censored for just existing.

  • AhltarUser commented  ·   ·  Report

    Ha yes, of course, the last time an authority decided to tag people ended well and society still remembers it fondly, let's do that on twitch...
  • therealsketchguy commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is clearly a deliberate attempt to silence queer people and make people pretend an election isn't happening. There should be no charitable interpretation of this choice. It's just an attempt to silence queer people and stop political action on their site and it's frankly disgusting that they would allow this. Twitch shouldn't get any streaming on their site until they remove this policy and give a public apology. They should be bleeding money until they fix this policy.
  • RadikAlice commented  ·   ·  Report

    As written, that policy is a comically broad example of overcorrecting
    Such an obvious "We're doing something" move, quite pathetic
  • Xerzes commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is cowardice at best and naked bigotry at worst. Up yours twitch.
  • radwolf76 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Fix this or I will stop using Twitch
  • PregnantAdamSandler commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch is inherently a social space where many of us go to relax, and often that means touching upon these "sensitive social issues" as they are intertwined with our lives. This harms all streamers who do not live perfect lives (or are not skilled at creating milquetoast centrist drivel to not offend the majority) free of any sort of "sensitive" complications.
  • otterlycrash commented  ·   ·  Report

    "sensitive social issues" is a stupidly broad label. Allowing it to be applied to LGBTQ+ people is absurd.

  • Violaycious commented  ·   ·  Report

    This expansion reduces visibility of self representation. We need removal or clarity. If we are fundraising for organizations that support our rights, talking about visibility, talking about pride, while "factual" information is called out as not needed to be labeled, we need better from Twitch. A specific example I do a TDOR stream each year, giving the facts on transgender experiences and a stream in memoriam of those trans people lost to violence carries an undertone of politics and advocacy to stop killing us.

    This article is badly worded and needs to be clearer on where the lines are drawn instead of being worded such that all LGBT+ streamers need to be under content warning labels to protect the people from seeing that we exist.
  • Centbair commented  ·   ·  Report

    Saying "LGBTQ+ is a sensitive social issue," is saying that people that are LGBTQ+ don't really exist. I live, breath, and feel. I shouldn't nor anyone, be censored for being us. That is like saying "having Red hair is a sensitive social issue," or "having blue eyes is a sensitive social issue." No.

    We are all people. We are all are humans with our lives. We walk down and follow a path that we want. It's not political, it's life.

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