In a statement, Twitch said that whilst it is a place “for people to express themselves and discuss the world around them”, from now on, any stream that includes discussions about war, religion, or “reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ rights, or immigration” needs to be labelled.
Ah, so people’s literal existence are now being political and sensitive, just the feature we needed for twitch
Insert always has been meme here.
The major difference between the 1920s or 30s or 40s or 50s or 60s or etc. and now is simply which people’s existence is being pushed as a political issue and that we’ve ceded control of the media to giant corporations who have an overriding incentive to make nobody mad ever because if they don’t, they’ll lose advertiser money because you can’t do anything without half the population disliking you.
That, and we have allowed fascists to control the discussion for decades, rather than stomping them like they rightfully deserve.
Twitch is very much in the wrong here, but let’s not pretend that telling people they’re not allowed to talk about one minority group or another is somehow new.
It has nothing to do with their existence and you know it. Also they just want those streams , which are bringing up political issues to simple tag/label themselves as such. Not that they can’t do it,nor they aren’t welcome or whatever.
Your making an issue out of nothing.
LGBTQ+ rights are about queer people being allowed to exist as they truly are, and marking that as political is honestly dehumanizing.
Is talking about straight relationships “political”?
I would say yes and should be in the same light as trans and whatnot.
They are asking for a label so people know prior, they aren’t denying anyone the ability to talk about it.