Remove hate groups
Remove the hate group that spreads misinformation and hate mongering while promoting abuse towards autistics and replace it with Autistic Women and Nonbinary Network.
For more information on the harms of Autism Speaks:
https://autisticadvocacy.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/AutismSpeaksFlyer2020.pdf
https://autisticmama.com/do-not-support-autism-speaks/
And an actual video from Autism Speaks where they glorify killing us (TW: I'm not kidding. They glorify a parent wanting to kill their kid for being autistic)
Our goal is to provide streamers with a wide variety of charitable organizations and enable them to decide who to support. The scale of this program may mean that people within our community may not agree with or support all of the included organizations, even if they are currently compliant with our policies.
Twitch partners with the PayPal Giving Fund, and they monitor charities on a daily basis for verification of their 501(c)(3) status in country-specific registries, compliance with PayPal Acceptable Use Policy, and more. We don’t allow charities that violate our hateful conduct policies on Twitch, or whose organization or leadership engage in or promote behaviors that violate our Off-Service policy. At this time, this organization does not violate our Off-Service policy.
Thank you for taking the time to share your concerns with us. We’ve added a number of charities that support Autism-related causes, including the Autistic Women and Nonbinary Network, based on feedback from the community. We encourage you to continue sharing charities you would like to see included or that you believe may violate our policies so we can evaluate. You can learn more about charity on Twitch in our help article.
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Wordsmythologic commented
For very concise reference:
https://medium.com/@KirstenSchultz/a-roundup-of-posts-against-autism-speaks-5dbf7f8cfcc6
They don't benefit or advocate for autistic people in ANY way but self-proclaimed; they, in actuality, advocated AGAINST us and exacerbate social stigma. Twitch needs to stop trying to defend them when they irrevocably violate multiple terms outlined in the off-service policy. They're an unambiguous hate group; there doesn't exist a defensible position - logically, emotionally, quantitatively, or morally - for supporting them.
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paintingstars22 commented
They literally advocate for the murder and eugenics of autistic people. If that doesn't violate your policies, then what does??
https://medium.com/illumination/why-autism-speaks-is-bad-d2ac66e356f9
https://www.distractify.com/p/why-is-autism-speaks-bad
From the previous post about removing A$:
For more information on the harms of Autism Speaks:
https://autisticadvocacy.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/AutismSpeaksFlyer2020.pdf
https://autisticmama.com/do-not-support-autism-speaks/
And an actual video from Autism Speaks where they glorify killing us (TW: I'm not kidding. They glorify a parent wanting to kill their kid for being autistic)
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c0debabe commented
Your Charity list is still hidden and you keep saying that you're merging these to make it easier to tally.
What if you actually removed Autism Speaks we can stop posting these?
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toyjazzer commented
There's nothing controversial about following your own rules, such as
-Explicit and/or credible threats of mass violence (i.e. threats against a group of people
-Harmful misinformation actors, or persistent misinformation superspreaders
Of course, no one at Twitch has a soul and cannot understand someone who isn't a spoiled techbro born with a silver spoon from San Francisco.
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sk22live commented
As many others have already shared, Autism Speaks is a hate group and not a charity worth supporting. Pretending it is causes harm for autistic people and ignores our criticism. Remove Autism Speaks as a Featured Charity, evaluate why Autistic voices are ignored and at the very least, publicly apologize.
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xRAINxOFxBLOODx commented
Yes, Twitch, we know you "addressed it". This is not the same thing as the other threads you locked, THIS IS A NEW APPEAL.
DO NOT MERGE THIS THREAD.
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TransFroggies commented
This. We all know that Twitch doesn't care about disabled streamers, but this is making it so obvious.
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Astoroidea commented
Can't believe Twitch is still supporting a group that advocates for the genocide of autistic people, be better than eugenicists, it's not that hard Twitch. Just get rid of Autism Speaks.
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TransFroggies commented
Remove Autism Speaks off the charity list. Autism Speaks is a eugenics-based hate group universally hated by autistics - they are NOT a charity and you know this. They think Autism is something to be 'cured' - that, plain and simple, is eugenics. They DO go against your so called hateful conduct policy; though it's hardly a policy you uphold if you pick when to use it or not.
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slotheroozstreams commented
The more you'll keep merging posts from people begging to remove Autism Speaks as a charity, the more it'll show that you simply support ableism and eugenics. You silencing us, and you doing nothing to change the current situation in any positive or productive way, would be the exact equivalent of you saying "We love, support and desire the genetic eradication of autistic people!"
"The portal’s tools also allow researchers to find the variations that have been discovered in a particular autism associated gene; gauge the expected severity of a gene change; and determine how often a particular gene change is inherited from a parent versus arising spontaneously (de novo) in a person affected by autism."
THIS IS EUGENICS. This is pure, literal, unapologetic eugenics. Autism Speaks wants autistic people GONE, if they don't want to also genetically determine "the best autistic traits" for their own god-forsaken allistic benefit. And Autism Speaks has SO MANY OTHER articles talking about "genetic testing" and "early intervention".
Mind you, once again, everything that Autism Speaks is working towards is DIRECTLY AGAINST TWITCH'S HATEFUL CONDUCT POLICY, in which they condone "Support for or promotion of outdated, discriminatory genetic or anthropological theories, including eugenics". Why does Twitch want to keep a "charity" that directly conflicts with their own guidelines? If it was so easy to remove the dangerously transphobic LGB alliance, they can remove the ableist and eugenistic Autism Speaks.
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Starry_Nox commented
Autism Speaks is a eugenics-based hate group almost universally reviled by autistics. They should not be platformed whatsoever, and you should be ashamed of yourselves for trying to sweep this under the rug by merging our concerns into a locked suggestion, preventing us from giving feedback.
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HUH_froganLa commented
normally im happy to play by the rules that have been put in place to keep things organized and to consolidate boosts/comments but you guys are not being subtle when you merge any new threads about this issue into the main post about removing these hate groups. we've seen your response and we frankly think it's bs. listen to your users and autistic people and stop silencing our feedback by merging every complaint about this hate group into a muted thread.
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HUH_froganLa commented
to reiterate what bhtooefr said
"The problem is that you're merging things into a *locked suggestion*, so it *is* acting to silence the feedback."
this is the entire problem and if they merge this into the main thread where it will be silenced and glazed over im never using their platform again.
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ceaseless_enemy commented
To further clarify, Autistic people are not taking “AS is fine actually” as an answer. You may have already decided, but as keeping Autism Speaks is a dumb decision, we’ve elected to ignore the stupid decision made, and push for the smart one.
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bhtooefr commented
Re: this comment from Twitch on the last one: "We're noticing some comments mentioned merging ideas being related to erasing feedback and just wanted to share that when things are merged they are not deleted. We merge things together so that we have all of the relevant feedback in one place. Merges move votes and comments over so no feedback is lost in the process."
The problem is that you're merging things into a *locked suggestion*, so it *is* acting to silence the feedback.
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ceaseless_enemy commented
Stop merging posts to hide your lack of care for Autistic people.
This will not go away.
Look at the many resources Autistic people provided for you and LISTEN, for goodness sake.
Twitch.TV’s flippant disregard is starting to **** me off.
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TransFroggies commented
HUNDREDS of autistic people are telling you that Autism Speaks is a hate group. Listen to us instead of saying they don't violate your policy when THEY DO.
Remove the hate group that spreads misinformation and hate mongering while promoting abuse towards autistics.
For more information on the harms of Autism Speaks:
https://autisticadvocacy.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/AutismSpeaksFlyer2020.pdf
https://autisticmama.com/do-not-support-autism-speaks/
And an actual video from Autism Speaks where they glorify killing us (TW: I'm not kidding. They glorify a parent wanting to kill their kid for being autistic)
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xRAINxOFxBLOODx commented
Inb4 this thread gets "merged" (conveniently erased) too.
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vicorva commented
Autism Speaks is a hate group that hurts autistic people like myself and it is frankly disgusting that Twitch is unwilling to remove them from the list. This is not a case of differing politics: this is a case of Twitch supporting a charity that believes an entire group of disabled people -- a group including myself! -- *should not exist* and which actively harms autistic people, especially autistic children. Please remove support for them!
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c0debabe commented
Please Remove Support for Autism Speaks -- a group that supports eugenics to "prevent" Autism.