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Let's pretend Twitch is serious about this, and go over very very very basic political science and rhetoric: All Speech Is Political. Speech includes intentional void within speech. In other words, literally ALL streams are, subtly or otherwise, political content. Viewers decide what content they do or don't want at the time of viewing. That's how Twitch (and viewership in general) works.
If Twitch is serious about their terms of service, and doesn't want people to BS and skirt around them, then a political speech restriction is at best meaningless and at worst self-defeating. The only rational conclusions people can draw from this are that either the political speech checkbox is a huge mistake, or that Twitch is NOT serious and that there are ulterior motives to this TOS addition--for example, to suppress some forms of speech (including verifiably factual speech) by labeling them as extreme or divisive, while promoting others as normative. This amounts to a "don't say gay" law, pretending that it's okay because it's just a "don't say gay TOO much" law.
Either people are allowed to speak honestly on Twitch and the political speech tag should be required for all streams and is therefore meaningless, OR people are NOT allowed to speak honestly and Twitch should just come out and say it so we can all decide how to respond. TOS is not the place for dissembling and rhetorical PR games. Twitch needs to either acknowledge the political speech checkbox as a mistake and a useless article that can only be used to harm its community, OR state openly what it's actually there for. If Twitch wants to suppress the political speech of those who are repressed, whether this is motivated by Twitch's own politics or by a desire to appeal to the politics of potential advertisers, that is a choice Twitch can make--but it's pretty pathetically cowardly to pretend that the intention is to protect the community, as though the community doesn't know when it's being protected and when it's not.