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

  • AMillionNames@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    11 months ago

    There’s also Internet allow only firewalls specially designed for parents who want to implement some control, which isn’t enough when content on platforms decide to saturate their content with that you don’t want to expose your children to. Then, it just becomes an exponential game of having to keep up and adjust each platform’s individual controls when they could have simply kept their adult content elsewhere and have it be easily accessible to any adult who wants to see it.

      • AMillionNames@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        11·
        11 months ago

        That’s a good point, but for any media. The problem is identifying something a child can watch and letting them watch it and because of a spur of the moment oversight find them watching something they shouldn’t be because they are not mature enough yet, and the same but having it devolve to extremes. It’s just not that difficult to set up a different domain/service name for it and making it easier for parents.

        • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
          6·
          11 months ago

          No, my point is specifically for twitch and other streaming platforms.

          If you let your kid on twitch, and you arent locking them in to a pre vetted list of known safe channels, youre letting them expose themselves to far far worse shit than porn.

          In the same way that if you let your kid watch netflix or HBO, you dont open the streaming app, hand them the remote, and walk off. You pick the channels or movies they can choose from.

          Other media is typically pre crunched into known safety levels. Twitch is a way to watch things, not a thing you watch.

          • AMillionNames@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            11·
            11 months ago

            I consider the risk on those platforms much less, and if they begun hosting hardcore porn I would consider only other platforms. Netflix and HBO implement parental controls and involve fixed runtime content, whereas Twitch involves real-time streams and widely differing types of moderation where streamers may be involved in safe and non-safe content, and it lacks the ease of the parental controls of the services you’ve mentioned.

            Why do you consider forcing all that micromanagement to parents easier than just moving porn to another domain or under another brand?

            • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
              5·
              11 months ago

              You mean, besides the fact that your kids are your responsibility, and not everyone elses?

              Or beyond the fact that netflix has the same level of softcore content, and HBO has far far far worse sexual and non sexual content?

              Do I need more reasons beyond those?

              • AMillionNames@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                12·
                11 months ago

                Fortunately for most parents, most governments disagree. They realize it’s a society problem. But I really hope that they eventually catch up with this type of bullshit in the Internet industry. I know that Steam and other services have begun to get flak for it, specially in countries like Germany.

                Click. On. Another. Fucking. Link/Brand. It’s not that hard.

                Thank f-ing god that this thread is nowhere near representative of the real world: https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/15/twitch-rolls-back-artistic-nudity-sexual-content-policy-ai-nudes/

                  • AMillionNames@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                    11·
                    11 months ago

                    If you diss and fail to understand why there is government regulation surrounding it all because you dealing with adult only websites is too difficult for you, it’s less a case of shouldn’t and more of a case of mustn’t for you, bud.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Pretty sure twitch is supposed to only be for all 16 plus anyway right I’m sure that’s somewhere in their terms of service that you can’t have an account of your underage.