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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astrea_nightfang commented
you removed one hate group charity now time to remove another despite the fact that both were asked to be removed with the original request
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hydraheadhunter132 commented
"Our goal is to provide streamers with a wide variety of charitable organizations and enable them to decide who to support ... 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." -Twitch Admins
If my goal at a potluck is to provide people many options so people can decide what to eat, that doesn't mean its okay for me to put a plate of dogshit on the table alongside legitimate dishes like potato salad. Adding sourkraut to the buffet does not address the problem of the dogshit on the table, Twitch.
Adding AWN as an option is good sure, BUT IT DOES NOT ADDRESS THE ******' PROBLEM WHICH IS THE INCLUSION OF @$ as a 'charity.'
Y'all added AWN to the list of charities, so maybe you'll listen to them on the matter: < https://awnnetwork.org/is-autism-speaks-a-hate-group/ >.
@utism $peaks is a hate group and needs removed from the charity list.
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lilyqwan commented
Please support a real charity and not one literally trying to get people killed for being unique and wonderful beings. I will be cancelling all of my current subs and stop using Amazon prime until this is properly dealt with, and encourage others to do the same! No matter how much cheaper or convenient it is, something like this is horrible to even marginally support.
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MeryemSimone commented
Autism Speaks CURRENTLY supports ABA therapy.
1 in 3 ABA practictioners use or support the use of physical harm and sensory torture to classically condition autistic children into masking, which in and of itself leads to burnout and in severe cases dysautonomia which can cause lifelong chronic illness.
Forms of ABA promoted on the Autism Speaks website RIGHT NOW start at as young as 18 months old. That is one and a half years old. Under TWO YEARS OLD.
Autism Speaks claims this isn't true and that ABA is perfectly safe and proven effective via hundreds of studies. Less than twenty credible studies prove ABA is effective, and none prove it is more effective than other therapies or prove it leaves less negative effects on a child than other therapy methods.
ABA therapy can take upto 40 hours every week. This means toddlers who cannot speak are abused for 40 hours a week until they begin to be seen as palatable to greater society. Until they stop regulating their body as their body is designed to be regulated and start sitting and standing and walking like an allistic person.
Autism Speaks claims this is done with the patient's goals in mind, but when you put a 18 month old who cannot speak through ABA, you're not working on the child's goals, you're working on the parents' goals.
Autism Speaks CURRENTLY supports a "therapy" where for forty hours a week you torture and emotionally neglect toddlers into not caring for themselves properly.
How can you read this and say they don't harm anyone and aren't spreading harmful misinformation? Again, they are promoting torturing kids into not taking care of their unique needs.
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SkylerFur commented
Amazon and Twitch, do know that we're aware of the fact that you think by just removing the LBG Hate Group that the Queer community will forgive you; and ignore that you only got rid of one hate Charity. You're wrong, so wrong
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iamnick29671 commented
A charity that promotes a science which violates the human’s genetic predisposition over studying and understanding the neurological disorder of autism is appalling. Shame on this platform for supporting such a vile part of human history.
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ShiraNoMai commented
I really REALLY don't think you folks are actually evaluating this "charity" when it very much, by your definitions and standards, violates your policies. I'm begging you to ACTUALLY read into what this charity does and reevaluate your stance on this.
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RotSTarge commented
Autism Speaks is not a charity, it is a hate org pretending to be a charity.
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SkylerFur commented
Amazon it's pretty bad optics to be seen supporting Eugenics, especially via a "charity"
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GermanAsF commented
Hey Twitch, what the actual f*** was that response to the last Uservoice that wanted to get Autism Speaks off the charity list?
Did you not listen? Do you not care? Do you think we don't care?
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i_am_trains_gardener commented
once again, **** twitch
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ceaseless_enemy commented
This is true, and Twitch needs to LISTEN.
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Cr4shMyCar commented
Autism Speaks is an actual hate group. They advocate for harmful "therapy", glorify killing autistic children, and want to commit what amounts to eugenics. Twitch is not getting another dollar or minute of viewership from me until they stop supporting groups that want to kill people like me.
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ReigneWolf commented
AutismSpeaks is not in line with TOS. Please properly review them and remove them.
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doodlemancy commented
Autism Speaks is exactly as unacceptable as the LGB Alliance. They use genocidal language in their advertising and they support "therapies" that we KNOW are traumatizing. They do nothing of value; they exist as a twisted support group for parents who hate their autistic children. Twitch, stop closing your eyes to this one. HERE'S what they think of autistic kids:
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SanmeiFlirtyBunBun commented
So much abuse and death is linked to this company. They are a hate group with a successful PR campaign that convinces people they're a charity, but the majority of their money remains in the company's coffers while they continue preaching hate for autistic people. Their preferred "treatment" is strongly linked to PTSD and is a companion to conversion therapy, which spun off the same methodology (the Lovaas Method, electroshock aversion training). https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/AIA-08-2017-0016/full/html
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ZephyronAlpha commented
Autism Speaks only stands for getting rid of autism - even if that means getting rid of the people who have it or children in the womb who may have it. It has no place in any charity tool and should have no standing as a charitable organization.
If there is not an equivalent organization in the charity list that actually HELPS autistic people then one should be researched and added. Perhaps actually speaking to autistic people when making that decision could yield an org that actually does good for the people they purport to stand for.
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DraxianTwitch commented
It’s a disgrace that Twitch requires public outrage to stop funding groups who don’t just have hateful elements but are built entirely on a platform of hate. Even a single intern looking over the list would’ve found evidence to remove them instantly. This isn’t good enough Twitch.
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fatherc0lt commented
How about getting rid of the misinformation spreading hate group autism speaks?
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EDL666 commented
I am so ******* sick of this. Do we have to make a complaint for every single hate group??? There's so many of them on that charity tool and many are very easy to find out they are hateful with a simple Google search. Also you claim you did thorough research on LGB Alliance before removing them, but you certainly didn't do a thorough research on Autism Speaks before rejecting our requests.
Recommending ABA treatment is *not* helpful, it's actually a purely traumatic experience and doesn't help the patient in any way, if anything it fails to acknowledge their actual problems that causes them to resort to "problematic behaviour" and ABA induces trauma in the patient to stop said behaviour but does nothing to address their actual problem which the behaviour actually probably provided some sort of coping mechanism to.
But you know, I don't even know why I bother typing anything because you're probably just gonna sweep this under the rug again and do like so many others have done to us and NOT LISTEN TO US but instead the so called self proclaimed "professionals" that also don't listen to us and instead torture us and want to genocide us via eugenics