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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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  • nabexis commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hey, LGBT person here, my existence is not political. I am genderqueer and bisexual. That is a fact and not some kind of political debate.
  • blvdsys commented  ·   ·  Report

    My nor anyone else's existence is political or controversial. We are human. Understand that, Twitch.
  • Ardate commented  ·   ·  Report

    This will censor people whose very existence will be deemed "political", like queer people simply talking about their lives and experiences. It needs to stop. Twitch needs to remove this rule immediately.
  • callmegrimm__ commented  ·   ·  Report

    Setting the precedent of equivocating queer people's right to share their story to the streaming of civil unrest is both dangerous and disgusting.

    My existence is not political, nor is any other queer person's.
  • IceFireAnimates commented  ·   ·  Report

    My existence is not political, nobody’s existence should be viewed as “political.”
  • AliceisMadness commented  ·   ·  Report

    As someone who’s trans I feel that me and other individuals that are part of the LGBTQ+ community should have the right to live and not have to label topics related to our experiences as controversial.
  • CroakManFrog commented  ·   ·  Report

    My LGBT identity shouldn’t be something considered “controversial”, it is APPALLING that such an update would even be considered.
  • therobotwrangler commented  ·   ·  Report

    I am not a "sensitive social issue". LGBTQ+ streamers are not a "sensitive social issues". And non-LGBTQ+ streamers talking about LGBTQ+ people are talking about people, not "sensitive social issues".
  • GraytArt commented  ·   ·  Report

    Being ANTI-LGBTQ+, ANTI-immigrant, ANTI-women and ANTI-reproductive rights is a political OPINION and such people should be labelling THEIR streams because of this. Punishing people for discussing their ACTUAL LIVED EXPERIENCE is the worst sort of censorship. Please remove this odious requirement from your marginized streamers.

  • rogueRobb commented  ·   ·  Report

    Human rights are NOT "sensitive social issues." My very existence is NOT controversial or political. Stop being complicit and contributing to this discrimination, because THAT is a real issue.

  • itszsena commented  ·   ·  Report

    for everyone who can't speak about being themselfs

  • dumb_buttercup commented  ·   ·  Report

    People existing is not controversial and shouldn’t be.
  • SammySam999 commented  ·   ·  Report

    This rule would do nothing but silence people whose existence gets politicized by it. This rule could be easily abused to bully marginalized people until they have to leave twitch, simply for mentioning their lived experience in a way people not belonging to these groups never would have to do (Mentioning a wife or husband, guess that's only okay if you're straight, because otherwise it's political sensitive. Mentioning family in LA is okay, mentioning family in Syria, oh well, political sensitive. Being visibly trans, being nonbinary? Guess all content is now political sensitive. Even if that is not the intended use cases for that clause, we all know that people will use that clause to massreport content from marginalized people until people end up deleting their accounts).
    All this clause does is creating a hostile environment which will get abused by bigots and trolls.
  • VulpeCutie commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please just let people exist without being labelled controversial. This sort of labelling opens the door for total censorship of non cishet identities, a truly terrifying concept
  • FoxtheValiant commented  ·   ·  Report

    I may be tired of having this brought up by NON LGBTQIA people, but at the very least I am practiced!!! Siding with those who weaponize hate and deem humans different from themselves as less than is the move of a someone who doesn't love themselves. I pity you in your self-hate, there's so much it over flows into the beauty you see around you.
  • MalavariCyberswitch commented  ·   ·  Report

    Gods I'm so tired of my existence being politicized or marked as "controversial". I just want to be able to exist without people othering me. Bending over for the people holding that sentiment is only going to worsen things. Taking away my ability to speak plainly about my experiences as a queer person is the kind of **** a dictator tries to pull. This is incredibly regressive and not okay on any level. If twitch staff has any love or respect for their queer creators, they have to undo this rule. Do better
  • Stoiluv commented  ·   ·  Report

    My existence isn’t a political talking point, and my existence shouldn’t ever be censored.

  • anodynified commented  ·   ·  Report

    Absolutely zero interest in supporting Twitch while it continues to classify the very existence of people and discussion of their lived experience as a 'sensitive topic'.

  • seasaltalchemist commented  ·   ·  Report

    requiring any of these, but esp lgbtq+ streamers, to label their streams as "sensitive social issues" just bc of they are is absolutely absurd and actually discriminatory. that clause should be removed immediately

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