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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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  • EKWeaver commented  ·   ·  Report

    Seriously, Twitch, knock this ******** off.

  • draca151 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Maybe you should put people questioning other people's rights as the sensitive content. If immagrents, LGBTQ+ or any other marginalized people or their allies want to talk about their day to day experience there should be no restrictions on that. People othering, "debating" and "questioning" other people is the offense content.
  • ElementW_74 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Say, hypothetical streamer, are you straight or are you a social issue?
    Do you believe human rights are a mere suggestion or are you a social issue?
    Do you have no thoughts on the military status quo or are you a social issue?
    Are you cisgender or are you a social issue?
    Do you like regressive legislation or are you a social issue?
    Do you not read news or are you a social issue?
    Were you born in your current country or are you a social issue?
    Are you isolated from the world or are you a social issue?
    Way to go, Twitch.
  • Duvi0 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Even just the topic of pushing LGBTQ+ individuals or discussion as a political hotbed is purely bad optics from an anti-bullying perspective.
  • TheAviarySystem commented  ·   ·  Report

    My identity is not “sensitive content” that needs to be censored. I exist.

  • doladdar commented  ·   ·  Report

    Existing as a queer person is not political.
  • Rymer101 commented  ·   ·  Report

    My identity is not a political issue. Naming it as such is pandering to the very audience that wants to see me removed from society and adding this label leads to people hunting that label to harass streamers.
  • LastOneOut commented  ·   ·  Report

    My queer identity is not a sensitive topic, I should not have to flag my stream as sensitive just for talking about my life. We already have to deal with people showing up to harass us for being queer, why are we, the people being harassed, being forced to silence ourselves rather than the consequences being directed at the people hurting us. Additionally this would make AGDQ, one of the biggest charity streams on the platform, no longer "family friendly" just for having pronoun tags and featuring queer runners. This is absolutely unacceptable, queer people are not obscene.

  • grunklestabs commented  ·   ·  Report

    Queer people should be able to talk about themselves without being censored and made to feel that just talking about an intrinsic part of them is a political issue.

  • DarkSparrow64 commented  ·   ·  Report

    People having rights is not political, and being a part of a group does not change this fact. We just want to exist.
  • legendofhelgaVT commented  ·   ·  Report

    lgbt+ people's existence is not a 'sensitive social subject' and twitch trying to label it so is bold face homo/transphobia.
    do better, twitch.
  • SuperSargasso commented  ·   ·  Report

    next theyre gonna make non-white people put up a sensitive social issues warning, since it makes whities uncomfortable to see them

  • skyaxel commented  ·   ·  Report

    Queerness is not political! It's bigots that feel the need to make it so!
  • andysopinion commented  ·   ·  Report

    I'm straight but support the removal of this bullet point.

  • PeachesUw0 commented  ·   ·  Report

    My existence is not a political issue. The existence of my loved ones is not a political issue. Who we love is not a political issue. Our right to live is NOT a political issue.
  • sinleyvera commented  ·   ·  Report

    Someone being queer doesn't need a trigger warning.
  • lilly1shere commented  ·   ·  Report

    ah yes, because being queer and existing is on the same level as war crimes. be for real.
  • humanrightsmatter commented  ·   ·  Report

    I’m not that gay but I’m so tired of LGBTQ’s rights everywhere being restricted. Twitch, do better.
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