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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cleanpillows commented
Has anybody tried tweeting at Twitch to get their attention on this? I know sometimes calling out the bigwigs works on a large platform like Twitter. More than happy to do it as well! Might work better if a ton of people do it too.
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beboppers commented
Still no answer, not surprised. Either say, no, we're keeping them or just remove them. The lack of response here is an appalling insult to autistic creators.
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ChangelingChain commented
The fact that some charity requests with almost no votes get responded to positively in less than a day and yet this removal request, despite being the most voted on request in the Charity section, has not been even responded to in nearly a MONTH shows that Twitch does not value its autistic content creators and viewers.
That is appalling to me. They won't even give us the courtesy of a response. At least a "No, we're not removing it" would let us know that the issue has even been looked at. They should remove it, though. Ableism Speaks, like most large "charities", pays its executives six figures and spends most of its money fundraising, either through "awareness" campaigns or though abusing the goodwill it erroneously generated by having the parents and community members it scared doing "walks for autism" to fundraise for them.
They don't need our help. And they're certainly not helping us. Remove Autism Speaks from your charity list, Twitch.
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lalondine commented
This charity is unhelpful and outright insults the very people it claims to help. The fact that it's still on the roster in 2022 is shameful.
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beboppers commented
It's been long enough, why is this "charity" even still an option? This is just a slap in the face to all of the autistic creators on your platform.
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Outfrost commented
Why is Autism Speaks still on the roster? What is taking you lazy managers so long?
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Alykkat commented
To this point, I also suggest developing and enacting a policy: https://twitch.uservoice.com/forums/945934-charity/suggestions/45660808-develop-and-enact-a-policy-preventing-harmful-char
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thedevilbearsNada commented
This needs to go!
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Wilson_OW commented
Please eliminate Autism Speaks. They do not help or represent autistic people.
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hennyblanc01 commented
I have pals who are autistic and the idea that they might have to see this stuff while I'm streaming is TRASH. They literally want to "cure" autism, not embrace neurodivergence. None of the interventions they suggest are helpful to autistic people, just make them "easier to deal with" - GROSS
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FionaDeer commented
Thankfully I could not find LGBA on there, however autism speaks should not be there.
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parvus_sed_potens commented
Autism Speaks has a LONG history of treating our condition like a disease (at times even arguing for a search for a "cure" for a condition as natural to autistic people as breathing), supporting or advocating for parents who've spoken about wanting to kill their autistic children, and putting out literature and media that demonizes and pathologizes us (to the point of deliberate misrepresentation and inciting trauma in children so they can film the meltdown). Their symbol, the puzzle piece, is an insult because it implies that autistic children are missing a piece, defective or incomplete, instead of complete people with special needs and difficulties navigating the world. They claim to speak for autistic people but do not (and, to my knowledge, never have) employed a single autistic person in any meaningful role. Autism speaks is widely regarded as a hate group by the autistic community--because they are one. Please remove this hateful, abusive organization from the list of charities receiving twitch's support. There are lots of other organizations Twitch would be better served by supporting; if they are4 looking for something that specifically speaks to their autistic user, might i suggest the Autistic Self Advocacy Network? https://autisticadvocacy.org/about-asan/about-autism/
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ChazSerir commented
I'd like to request that Autistic Women and Nonbinary Network (AWN) be added to the list of charities: https://awnnetwork.org/
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leadryder commented
twitch do research before putting “charities” on your website to be funded for, what is wrong with you? autism speaks is a hate group, if you actually asked autistic users and streamers you would know that.
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gummicorn_ commented
Autism Speaks actively speaks over autistic voices and promotes eugenics and "curing" autism. And every penny they get goes towards more of this behavior. They need to go.
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virvaplays commented
Nothing about us without us.
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CptHardluck commented
Nothing hateful about the group at all. This is a false narrative.
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b3dheadd commented
Remove Autism Speaks!! I'm asking this as an Autistic person, and nobody knows us more than we do! Trust all of us yelling at you, the group is bad and needs to be removed!
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ValoxWayward commented
Autism Speaks is extremely harmful to me and other people. They believe Autism to be a bad thing and want to eradicate us. This is not a charity, this is a a genocide campaign.
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axelotls_ commented
please twitch, for the love of god, if you're going to have an autism charity listed, the least you could do is list ones that are run by autistic people. the autistic self advocacy network is right there!