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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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  • Milok14411 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Oh wow, calling people's existene ,,a sensitive political topic'' how human of them. Like hey, how about not doing that ? Why do we need to bow down to the bigots and make compromises for them ? They should just get over the fact that we exist and are people like them.
  • ciborg66 commented  ·   ·  Report

    HUMAN RIGHTS ARE NOT A SENSITIVE ISSUE! You are insane to suggest that. The only reason why SOME people view it as political is because some ******* ******** keep making it political! WE DESERVE RIGHTS, WE ARE NOT SECOND CLASS CITIZENS!
  • TamTroll commented  ·   ·  Report

    So if LGBTQ+, immigrants, and Reproductive rights are labelled as sensitive content, then that means Cis people who were born in their local area who have kids are ALSO labelled as sensitive content, right?

    Right?

    Protip: Treat people like people. Doing otherwise is a bad look for you.
  • lantern_girl commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is Taurossh*t having LGBTQ+ rights on the same grounds as war is awful
  • KIINGKIISMET commented  ·   ·  Report

    Stop bending to people who make our existence a problem, instead, punish those who keep doing harassment and hate campaigns against marginalized folk on YOUR PLATFORM, TWITCH. My existence isn’t political.
  • elmvrey commented  ·   ·  Report

    ams queer and ifs its happens to pop up in ona my rare but normal vids then i shouldnt have to flag playing minecraft or sumthin simple as explicit cuase i said i like girls on stream
  • klomlong1 commented  ·   ·  Report

    So you're just going to discriminate people who suffered from SA and part of the LGTBQIA group.....
  • Bloodmane_Jayne commented  ·   ·  Report

    To quote a Michael Jackson song, "All I wanna say is that They Don't really Care About Us!" and it seems like time and again, Twitch hasn't treated trans creators with the respect we deserve. How in the Sam **** is our existence this much of a wedge issue that we're treated as political taboo? This is peoples' lives we're talking about, not some sexual fetish or political agenda.
  • Zeteni commented  ·   ·  Report

    People being themselves is not a "sensitive social issue".
  • SelphieFairchild commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is so gross and needs to be removed ASAP
    Stuff like this should never be labeled as "sensitive social issues" everybody has a right to exist regardless of race, gender, sexuality, etc

    They get enough discrimination as it is and this will open them up to even more
    I have many friends that are LGBTQIA+ streamers and i moderate for at least two of them, they dont deserve this and i had to put in my vote.
  • kevindqc commented  ·   ·  Report

    Gross. My existence is not political.
  • Lushvale commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yeah no this bullet point is crazy. It opens up with_a_ vaguely good idea, but everything past that is explicitly stating people talking about the things that they are, or directly affect them, is off limits.

    **** the normies who can't stand a woman talking about her abortion.
  • KevMmm commented  ·   ·  Report

    If same sex marriage is no big deal and law of the land. Being gay on Twitch should also be no big deal.

  • cherriwhitewing commented  ·   ·  Report

    My existence, and the existence of other LGBTQ+ people, isn't political.
  • phonex_xl commented  ·   ·  Report

    Love being labelled as a "sensitive political topic" just for being alive.
  • Gnarphtholepth commented  ·   ·  Report

    No group of people should need a special label just to be in public.

    Twitch, this is reprehensible.
  • Full_Metal_Gingie commented  ·   ·  Report

    The existence of queer people is not a “political topic,” and the only individuals who attempt to defend that position are bigots who want to attempt to erase the visible existence of queer people or other minorities.
  • zero_luft commented  ·   ·  Report

    Stop making LGBTQAI+ lives harder than they are
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