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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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  • DerrickDTH commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is an awful decision from Twitch. This is gonna hurt streamers that are LGBTQ+ if this is left as is.

  • The_Hawkatana commented  ·   ·  Report

    Good to know my existence is apparently inherently political now.
  • devdog_the_dumbass commented  ·   ·  Report

    Do straight and/or cis people have to flag streams where they talk about their partners have to be marked. Twitch is really opening themselves up for a discrimination lawsuit if they warn LGBTQ creators for not flagging their videos for existing.

    This is clear cut discrimination.
  • MorriganKatt commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch being disgusting again, what's new. Trying to be kick or something.
  • Galaxy_Eyes_Femboy commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is the most fascist thing I've seen since I watched a literal, fully dressed, Nazi walk through a food line in Silver Dollar City without any staffing saying anything, even after complaints and one of the cooks quitting right there. Wtf Twitch, do better. We're humans, our identity and journeys of self discovery do NOT warrant the same thing as supporting genocide and needless wars. We have every right to talk about ourselves on this platform and show how far we've come in realizing oneself. You'd not only lose money from the viewers effected, but also the streamers who would either be kicked off the site for being too openly queer or who would leave because of the streamers being kicked, and the new streamers who wouldn't be welcomed because of how they identify. You would eventually be left with an echo chamber of neo-nazi wannabes spouting off ******** propaganda about how the LGBT+ community is some kind of evil witch coven hellbent on corrupting the youth.
  • bunbun_velvet commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch really wants people to move to youtube huh? Let people exist without having to be tagged as a "sensitive political issue".
  • KDENtrax commented  ·   ·  Report

    I am extremely tired of boardroom executives deciding on which subset of real life human beings are or are not allowed to have a voice on their platform.

    This is discrimination, plain and simple.
  • thoinkmaster commented  ·   ·  Report

    People should be able to talk about LGBTQ stuff, its not inherently political.
    Please remove that from the proposed flag. Putinesque and embarrassing measure.

    Twitch used to be the future, this would firmly stick it in the past. The internet is in the hands of lames.

  • Ceruchi commented  ·   ·  Report

    So are people not allowed to be open about being gay, trans, etc. anymore without being labeled as a “sensitive topic”? Stuff like this is genuinely mind boggling.
  • angrygaynoises commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hey, uh... why am I "sensitive content", Twitch? You can't label people as content, and you sure as **** can't single out women, queer folk, non-white people, or the poor to be labelled as content - as obstacles to be talked around, ignored, and outright censored.
    God forbid I talk about my life or experiences. God forbid someone realise that I exist. God forbid someone has to see me as a person instead of a problem.
  • yuki_envt commented  ·   ·  Report

    SO many people out there are LGBT, this shouldn’t be a sensitive social issue. It’s 2024, c’mon twitch… smh
  • Rallink commented  ·   ·  Report

    I'm LGBT. My friends and loved ones are LGBT. I'm sick and tired of my existence and my rights deemed political. My happiness shouldn't be.up for debate! What's wrong with you, Twitch? Shame on you

  • Miny_Rosa commented  ·   ·  Report

    Sensitive topics aren’t one-sided sensitive. Topics are not sensitive if they make you mad. that’s politics.
  • Diana2112Gaming commented  ·   ·  Report

    I'm queer. I'm trans. I wasn't away my existence needed a warning label. Are you going to put warning labels on heterosexual content as well? "Warning: Contains Straight People?" If not, this is discrimination and singling out queer people, and is clearly, 100% politically motivated.
  • olythewolf commented  ·   ·  Report

    really, you do know this is a potential civil rights protected violation with current federal laws and guidelines in the united states, be ashamed if a federal court or a lawyer were to get wind of this. Especially with how certain State laws that certain headquarters are located
  • Rorenado commented  ·   ·  Report

    People like me (I'm gay) are not a sensitive social or political issue. We're people. Surely the past 60 years have pointed out that we are constantly under threat. Policies like this send us back decades. We're already under yammering assault from far-right orgs that seek to make us retreat underground, because they think we're "icky". Don't play into their hand.
  • JayRasz commented  ·   ·  Report

    LGBTQ+ issues are not political. What is political is people trying to remove us from society. We just want to live our lives, that shouldn’t be controversial. Remove this designation NOW.
  • DuskffyArt commented  ·   ·  Report

    My existence as a Nonbinary/Trans person is not political, and not a "sensitive topic". This rule is extremely bigoted and not by any means okay.

  • Nibirus_Finest commented  ·   ·  Report

    As others have mentioned, forcing content sensitivity labels onto users who are expressing their lived experience as a member of the LGBTQ+ community is not a productive policy. It creates an othering for these people and also sets up the implication that people fighting for equal rights for themselves is considered sensitive content in the same way that a person whose morale beliefs believe they should not have rights. These are not equal viewpoints, so this policy only serves to harm queer creators and their allies.

  • ProfessorOtaku commented  ·   ·  Report

    Why are queer people 'sensitive social topics'? Honest answer only please.
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