People that are skeeved out by gay people enough that they would need a content warning already have a bunch of other platforms to echo chamber themselves on. I can't help but feel like this last bullet is an attempt to net some of those people back. It's not worth it, Twitch.

The entirety of point VII will be weaponized to silence and bully LGBTQIA+ creators off the platform.

Human Rights and our ability to exist and talk of them are not "Sensitive Social Issues."

It's not a "sensitive social issue" if it's just peoples everyday lives and concerning their basic rights. If you're a LGBT+ and/or an immigrant streamer, why is your existence reduced down to politics? Why on the flip side are straight+cis streamers allowed to talk about their lives and experiences but there is a double standard for LGBT+ people? This hurts so much of the community, streamers and audience alike. Many people will just leave the platform if this goes into full effect.

How do you even flag this? What if what you're streaming has such content and you don't have your stream flagged because this isn't something that people usually have censorship advisories for? No, my identity should NOT count as political, but are you TRULY going to sit there and tell me that I need to flag all possible politics up to and including my own identity? At what point do you want me (an affiliate) to cut my losses and move to another platform?

If conversation around these topics can't be had then the people seeking to silence them have, functionally, already won.

Twitch enacting these policies is actively participating in creating avenues with which bad actors can silence these members of the community. People dealing with reproductive rights issues, queer issues and issues of race are not "Sensitive social issues", but people whose voices need to be kept audible because they are the more vulnerable members of your community.

It's *the people who are attacking marginalized people* that need to be silenced, not the subject itself.

its "political theater", you dont want to be used as a geopolitical moss pit, i get it
but this? this is not even remotely acceptable, fifth bullet point here is all manner wacked up, looping gender race and sexualaity along with military conflicts isnt okay, but the last "sensative social issues" part is apsolutely unacceptable
we arnt exactly stoked about being told how our daily routine of just trying to pleasently exist is a sensative issue and deemed for a timeout in the penalty box
putting a lable over it is basically a stream warning, it tells people that there is something wrong, something deviant about us, there simply isnt
if "Twitch is a place for people to express themselves and discuss the world"
then stop calling our communities sentative topic, and drop the last point asap

Love it when I'm told I'm political, just cause I like dudes and girls and enbys. Guess the "If it isn't a straight male, it's political." meme is true.

I'm a transgender woman and I agree with what everyone else is saying about this being identity erasure. I'm also concerned about the implication that political speech shouldn't be on Twitch. The world seems to be ****-bent on forcing us to defend our existence, and it's hardly fair if we aren't allowed to.

Someone's mere lived experience of their life should not be a banned topic that they must not ever mention or face social censure

This change disproportionately affects queer streamers by boiling their identities down as being inherently political or explicit and thus algorithmically and financially suppressing them. There is no world in that this move can be seen as anything but bigoted.

Why should who someone loves or how someone identifies be considered a sensitive topic?...unbelievable...

I'm so ******* tired of being a "sensitive social issue" instead of a person.

This will kill smaller streamers who happen to be LGBTQ+ thus discussing problems, allowing almost no growth due to the flag given.

Another day of my existence as a person being politicized. This could really affect disabled streamers too! As disability is often politicized and for many disabled streamers Twitch may be their only viable income source!

Basic Human Rights are not "Sensitive Social Issues"

There is no middle ground between yes to abuse and no to abuse; only a little bit of abuse is still pro-abuse. Twitch should not officially position itself as anti-LGBT if it wants to continue being a platform our community is comfortable spending money on.

Our lives are not a political issue to be debated, and we are not a political football with which to be kicked around. Do Better, Twitch.

**** Twitch i didnt know you were ***** made like that

These are people's lives, not "sensitive social issues". Couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this. Having an explicit content label for this is just plain wrong on so many levels.