Twitch updates sexual content guidelines amid ‘topless’ meta backlash - Dexerto
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Twitch has updated its guidelines on sexual content following mass outrage over a new 'topless' meta that gained popularity on the site.

Twitch Updated their Sexual Content Policy:

  • Changes: Certain content now allowed with labels
  • Artistic Nudity: Permitted under Sexual Themes Label
  • Game Nudity: Contextual; labels necessary
  • Body Painting: Acceptable with appropriate label
  • Mature Games: Label generally covers content
  • Stream Visibility: Impacted by content labels
  • Twerking, grinding and pole dancing are now allowed without a label.

Via https://twitter.com/Dexerto/status/1735024184114245689

  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4020·
    1 year ago

    For me it’s how popular and accessible twitch is for kids.

    You mean, as opposed to the notoriously unpopular and inaccessible PornHub (among hundreds of others)?

    • panda_paddle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      599·
      1 year ago

      If my child is on twitch, I can reasonably assume it’s for game streaming. If my child is on pornhub, I can assume they are watching pornography. I dont like having that line blurred.

    • Fades@lemmy.worldEnglish
      406·
      1 year ago

      It’s not the same, how many children are going to pornhub to watch video games and happens to see and click on a recommended stream for actual porn?

      Your false dichotomy does not hold up.

    • ipkpjersiEnglish
      282·
      1 year ago

      Yep. It’s a lot easier to block Pornhub than it is to block porn on Twitch but leave the rest of Twitch unaffected.

      • Vilian@lemmy.caEnglish
        71·
        1 year ago

        twitch could block mature content behind an account, and only if that account is +18

        • ipkpjersiEnglish
          6·
          1 year ago

          I was thinking more from a parent’s point of view. It’s a lot easier to block a whole website than parts of a website.