Please stop giving in to bad actors trying to strip the liberties away from minority groups for political gain. Remove the sensitive social issues clause.

The ruling is absurd. The mere act of voicing one's talents to a community is already political in a meaningful sense. The new rules are particularly confusing to people outside the american cultural sphere who do not share the narrow-sighted "culture war" nonsense that treats politics like a pejorative.

It is an unenforceable, confusing, vague limitation. It will only produce more discontent, sloppy, selective moderation and limit user outreach.

Twitch needs to remove that flag -- these marginalized people are PEOPLE who deserve human rights, but if you want to only consider it from a selfish point of view, they are a LARGE part of your user base.

We stand with LGBTQ+ people, immigrants, Palestinians and Lebanese, and women everywhere.

No-one’s existence should be considered “politically sensitive.”

there is nothing political about lgbt folks just wanting to live their lives without fear of reprisal

As someone who is LGBT, non binary and bisexual. How would my very existence be considered political, nobody irl has ever told me that. I see this as a very delusional policy change that Is catering bigoted sponsors and this will do nothing but hurt the platform as a whole.

Twitch saw the Hays Code and thought "what a great idea"

I can't wait to see what the ACLU, GLAAD, Lambda Legal, or whatever advocacy legal group might be looking into filing against Twitch in terms of litigation...

My and every LGBTQIA2S+ individual's identity and story is not "political," is not "controversial," and is only "sensitive" in that we should be treated with respect by any and every user. When you choose to go and put labels like this against the LGBTQIA2S+ community, you are implicitly caving to those who seek to erase us, who want us to remain invisible, want us to not exist. I exist, and I refuse to be stuck behind an unwanted and, frankly, discriminatory label, Twitch.

I thought you had made a point of trying to work *with* those in the LGBTQIA2S+ community, for a more inclusive and welcoming streaming community as a whole. Is that not a thing any more? Or is it just the same tired song and dance of empty platitudes, once again, from a cold, corporate entity that ultimately shows, as always, they just don't care?

I am not a political statement

Calling peoples existence a political issue is garbage

social issues are a normal thing for humans to talk about, this censorship clause is insane

I am not a sensitive political issue purely for existing. If I talk about myself and my own experience, I should not be hidden behind a sensitive content censor.

Under these guidelines, any person streaming to Twitch that is not a cisgender, heterosexual, white male is sharing sensitive political content. Are you serious? Did anyone who wrote this policy have any idea what they were doing or what Twitch is? The people that stream on your platform are PEOPLE, not tools to be used, ignored, and/or discarded. Twitch's constant desire to make their platform worse for all varieties of users with every announcement and update continues to be mind-boggling. The best time to scrap this idea was before it was ever publicly unveiled, and the second best time is now.

Twitch, stop trying to claim my very existence is controversial.

basically twitch seems to be classifying us as sensitive subject just for existing!

this is just censorship of marginalized people!

actively spreading thoughts of phobia hate towards it marginalized people/ lgtqia+/disabled/bipoc in its tos (actively saying we have to censor our existence)

although the disclaimer of this is a thing https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2024/11/01/hate-and-harassment-have-no-place-on-twitch/

I cant help but feel it very charged

i will agree if speaking politics the warning should be there but just us living our lives being us is not a politics things

Existence is not political. These are not "Sensitive Issues" to be hidden away, they are crucially important on the way to becoming beautifully mundane.
I'm utterly unsurprised that Amazon is against these topics.

The only thing required to make "the sky is blue" a political statement is some ******* out there saying he'll jail you for it.
The very existence of minorities is political, and we didn't make it that way.

My existence is not political. I am a human being, not a concept to be argued about or censored. The fact that this is even an issue is absolutely shameful.

The existence and lives of are people is not controversial. People living their lives causes no harm to themselves or anyone else. Others that take offense to the existence of trans, non-binary individuals are no different than a racist taking offense to a black persons existence. I implore you to not add credence to demonstrable bigots who often go out of their way to find trans and non-binary creators to harass and process to claim victimhood.

Hi, transfem here. This is trying to say my existence is explicit context and deserves to be censored, and I've had enough of that ******** lately. If you're here I'm already assuming you're planning to vote, but just in case you need the extra push: Please vote.