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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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  • eypsi1on commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is incredibly dumb and should have not been put in in the first place. Backtrack it.
  • ambureon commented  ·   ·  Report

    i have conceded that my manner of speech does frequently fall under "significant profanity or vulgarity". i will NOT concede, however, that a discussion of my experiences as a transgender individual living under a transphobic government has to be *warned for* as a "sensitive social issue". fix your ****, twitch.
  • motherorisa69 commented  ·   ·  Report

    The only people bothered by this are people with a hate *****. This is an important thing to a lot of people and impacts a lot of creators and viewers heavily. Easily enough to make the switch to youtube.
  • Technolapin commented  ·   ·  Report

    Video games were a sensitive social issue like 8 years ago, c'mon twitch now is not the time to forget where we come from.

  • HeartwoodMtG commented  ·   ·  Report

    Just... c'mon Twitch. You've been doing so well lately. This is dumb, and you know it.

  • bonkstrats commented  ·   ·  Report

    The final bullet point of article VII door by removed for all the reasons listed prior to my comment. I agree with them all and add my voice to the calls to action here. It's hard to tell at this point if the people making these kinds of decisions for twitch are clueless or bad faith...
  • LaurentheFlute commented  ·   ·  Report

    The existence of queer people should not be controversial, and it's very reactionary and backwards of you to create a rule like this. You've profited plenty off of queer people as a company in the past; don't then turn around and punish us just for existing in your space.

  • condorscondor commented  ·   ·  Report

    my existence, my life, is not a political issue. i exist.
  • emanresuemanresu commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch, you are disappointing. Human rights are non-negotiable. You might as well call women's rights, freedom of speech or freedom of conscience controversial issues. Seriously, don't bow to bigots just because you might lose users or something. Well, if you continue down this road, you'll lose users anyway, just not the hate-filled crowd.

  • WyldWish commented  ·   ·  Report

    Labeling LGBTQIA+ issues as political is a way of othering us from "normal" folks so that we can be more easily flagged, wiped from the face of decent internet & then wiped off the face of the earth when we arent allowed to share our experiences and stories with the public online. This is yall chosing genocide against queers because right wing tried to politisize pur existence. Yall said "OK hold my beer we'll make it so everyone queer can be reported for speaking on anything relatable to them. Have fun nazis!"

    This goes so far past discrimination, you can only call it online silencing of a marginalized group of people, and it will absolutely get queer people killed thru silencing them as weve seen elsewhere.
  • SabTheFuturist commented  ·   ·  Report

    The attempted implementation of this aspect of the service is very telling as to whose side this company is on. Then again, they are owned by Amazon…
  • IkomaTanomori commented  ·   ·  Report

    My existence and daily life are not "sensitive" topics. Twitch should not cater to people who would rather not hear about my existing as bisexual and non-binary.
  • Dissy125 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch has provided a place for many folks to feel part of a community. Please don't take that away.
  • acuddledu31 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please look at it carefully, Twitch ! Look at how you called it "ideological content". "Gender ideology" is a term only used by people who have been severely redpilled.
    Someone slipped you one of those pills and infected you with a mind virus that will make you fear others and difference, disobey logical thinking and embrace other "overvalued ideas".
    Wake up from their delirious, planet-flattening reality and back into round earth, please !
  • cubic_malevolence commented  ·   ·  Report

    The world has made amazing progress in being more accepting of LGBTQIA+ people but there is still a long way to go. Don't reverse the good progress that's been made by making it easier again to marginalise and shun valid human beings please
  • aMapleShark commented  ·   ·  Report

    It can be used to target people with hate messages

  • MiminaMinty commented  ·   ·  Report

    I am worried Twitch might accidentally be providing an easy pathway to report marginalized streamers as 'Sensitive Social Issues' violations.

    For example: Is it a political "sensitive social issues" if a streamer shares their story about having been discriminated based on gender identity or sexual orientation at their workplace?
    What about, if they share their opinion on current legal recourse or laws regarding that matter? Human rights should not be controversial. If this talk lasts 1 h of their 6 h stream, it is "the focus of the stream"?
  • solinalightning commented  ·   ·  Report

    I don't want to be labeled along with beeing the same as f*cking war thank you very much, we as a comunity have already been through enough. Let us have the right to exist like anyone else, like. It. Should.
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