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Twitch updates sexual content guidelines amid ‘topless’ meta backlash::undefined
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Oh no, almost visible tits!? Nono we can’t have that, it’ll morally bankrupt our audience.
Edit: apparently they’re more lenient as long as it is properly tagged. Nice.
No actually they have a more open stance if the stream is properly labeled and just won’t promote those labels on their front page
Would you look at that, nice.
My only issue is that kids use the platform a lot and shouldn’t be exposed to overly sexualised content when they’re just looking for gaming content. Twitch apparently says they’ll try to remove it from the front page but stuff inevitably gets though.
What happened to good parenting being a valid solution to a problem like that?
Kids will be kids. Good parenting makes a big difference but kids will end up seeing and seeking these things at some point.
Should just remove kids tbh
If Twitch wants to be an adult platform then they should honestly.
Agreed!
Kids shouldn’t be on the internet unsupervised, that’s the parents’ responsibility. The internet shouldn’t have to cater to a bunch of brats that shouldn’t be on these platforms in the first place, the internet was never meant for children.
Sure, but you could have a setting which allows sexualised content to be accessed or showed. Or just a popup when entering the stream like it already does with mature streams or whatever they’re called. You can have the streams only visible to people logged in, have people put their age on the account when making it (not sure if already a thing) and not show this stuff to people under 18. Yes you can just say you’re 18 but in that case the kids do it deliberately and won’t just stumble upon it. Have the parents do an underage account for them. Lots of options, and yes, the parents do have responsibility as well.
These things never work at all.
Can you imagine the trauma it would cause if a child were to inadvertently see a nipple? Unthinkably horrible.
I talk constantly with my kids and they’re preteen and already having sex talks. Maybe more parents need to stop being lazy shits?
Unfortunately, most parents are not tech savvy and don’t understand Twitch or how kids use the internet at all. On the face of it to most parents it just looks like a gaming thing. To these people the internet is basically platforms like Facebook on their phones. When they eventually hopefully catch little Johnny watching furry penises on Twitch it’s already too late and a lot of parents lack even the parenting skills to deal with that appropriately. Sadly, it doesn’t take much intelligence to procreate.
Personally, I’ve just blocked Twitch outright on my firewall with this change in policy for my kids and continue to monitor what they do as always. But fortunately unlike the majority of parents I actually know how to deal with it either way.
Different approach but I don’t block anything. I watch twitch streams but show my kids what’s out there. Basically the world is fair play just be aware of where everything is coming from. I don’t get half the shit on twitch but damn those women know their demographics lol
If they want to look at this stuff I’m not naive enough to think they won’t find a way to do so. But I’m not about to make it as easy as being recommended it by Twitch just because Bezos wants more ad revenue.
Why are people so bothered by bare skin?
Because everyone is trying to use sexy/sexuality to sell their crap and I’m absolutely tired of it.
Don’t watch it then? 🤷
Literally what is wrong with that
One thing is wrong is that this site accumulated alot of children auditory with fortnite and Minecraft streams and then allowed nudity
If you’ve seen the just chatting category, this is nothing new. People have been skirting ToS since the beginning. That’s why there’s an option to allow mature audiences or not, although it could be a lot more granular since mature language is basically on the same maturity as full blown nudity according to the option.
I’d say, Twitch is ever increasingly less and less about games and more and more is just becoming PornHub. So, it’s ripe for child exploitation (teenagers) and potentially could scare away advertisers.
Just Chatting has been the dominant category for a very long time. Justin.tv was used for the creator to stream his daily life. This isn’t anything new.
Because American puritanical culture has conditioned people to see it as taboo… it’s a lot different in the rest of the world.
It’s funny how defederating a lemmy instance based on ideological differences is community guidlines this, content moderation that, but twitch enforcing a moderation policy is a puritanical america problem. :D
There’s nothing wrong with porn, but there are plenty of good, existing places to do it. This is just world politics vs. anime titties all over again.
Can you elaborate on that politics vs anime thing?
The mods in the world politics subreddit got lazy and stopped doing their jobs, so people started posting porn there in protest. The hive mind did as the hive mind does, and, inspired by the Trees/Marijuana Enthusiasts thing, someone created a subreddit called Anime Titties in order to talk about world politics.
I don’t know the background of exactly how it happened, but on Reddit there’s a subreddit called anime_titties that is actually about world politics.
Are you sure that seeing this on the front page of the art category is not taboo? https://i.imgur.com/nSrEqvD.png
Nah I wouldn’t say it is different in the rest of the world. Yes, open minded people everywhere don’t get bothered by bare skin in a lot of situations, but there are also a lot of people that perceive it as a taboo. Besides that, a lot of people that okay with bare skin on many contexts, there are still many of them that don’t expect or want a bare skin to be a factor in a lot of others, varying by individuals.
For example, I wouldn’t mind bare skin and varying degrees of intimacy in a lot of entertainment media, but still I would expect this to me a non-factor in the indicator of quality in most of them. For twitch, a platform that has come about and widely known as a gaming streaming site, I would expect the key performance indicators of content creators to be their gaming skills and gaming related entertainment value, not their bare skin. Alas all of us know that bare skin would definitely be a factor in the KPI of content creators because also sex sells, but I’m not going to Twitch to purchase sex.
The amount of movies marked R in America that get G/PG ratings in Europe and other places in the world because they show nudity is rather high. It’s a running joke that showing tits, love and affection gets you restricted but copious amounts of violence, gore and murder is okay for everyone in the US, while rest of the world has it reversed, and that it explains quite a lot about the US.
First one to come to mind is Amelie. It’s R, restricted to adults only like porn in the US, South-Korea and Malaysia, but 7 in Sweden & Swizerland, 11 in Finland, G in Japan and Spain and so on.
Twitch is stripchat, just simply as that. Any female model can just do live stream, promote their +18 Links, and be half naked 24/7 just to get donates and subs. And yes for most people this is fine, cause who cares if a kid will access hot tubs for example. Who cares if Twitch is promoting those +18 models, who cares? None, none, not even Twitch.
As we community we should hold guidelines, but guess what ? We can’t.
I’m on Twitch almost since it’s begging, Twitch was supposed to be SWF platform.
As long as they continue to reap their cut, they’ll gladly devolve into purple Chaturbate. Their only guiding principal is revenue.
Were you on Justin.TV?
No one has to watch the channels they don’t want to watch. Change the channel if you don’t like it. That’s why they’re called channels.
They’re constantly popping up on the front page
They do say they’re changing that, so we’ll see if it goes away
