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Twitch rescinds policy that allowed ‘artistic nudity’ / The decision comes two days after the company said it would allow some sexual content

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Twitch rescinds policy that allowed ‘artistic nudity’

Twitch rescinds policy that allowed ‘artistic nudity’ / The decision comes two days after the company said it would allow some sexual content::Twitch has quickly taken back its policy update that gave users permission to post sexual content as long as it was labeled.

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I think the credit card companies gave them a call and threatened to treat them as a porn site.

Nudity can be artistic but we all know how this is going to be exploited on twitch
- I just hate that highly entertaining, high production value, high effort streamers get like 10-50 viewers tops, and two chicks sitting on the couch barely speaking will get 3,000. Like I understand what drives it, but how fucking desperate are people.
  
  There's plenty of boobs on the internet. It's this weird thing where people want to see as much as possible of the boobs they can't see.

Twitch is just such a weird fucking place man
- It looks like a company that can't figure out how it wants to operate anymore... They don't want to enforce their rules because having soft nudity makes them profit, but they also don't want to deal with the consequences of actually allowing it...
  
  Its simple. Make twitch money without crossing a line. You can skirt the line if you make them tons of money.

At this point, it feels hard to argue that Twitch's TOS is even enforceable.

- The only age restriction I've ever seen on twitch including these last two days was you had to be 13. Did you see anything for age verification when it came to the twitch softcore porn?
  I mean I can see how this would quickly get abused. Maybe a bunch of are either new to the internet or you were hoping to bribe the 16-year-old... And then play stupid and say well the platform allowed it...

Geez, the fuck’s going on over there?
I don’t think anyone minds artistic nude or even full on porn, assuming there’s reasonable legal protections to keep underage kids away.
- As we saw in the two days the former policy was in place, there are/were not.
  Also, Twitch is meant to be a gaming-centric streaming platform, not OnlyFans 2.0. There are a million other sites on the internet to find porn, let Twitch be what it's supposed to be.
  
  Thank you! I feel like the plot was getting lost here debating the morality of nudity while ignoring that the site is a gaming streaming service.
  Nudity/porn doesn’t bother me at all but the moment twitch becomes widely associated with it is the beginning of the end. Parents will think twice about allowing kids into the service, brand equity suffers, other services start up that allow for safer spaces and eventually, as you said, twitch risks being considered OF 2.0.
  
  Did you ever watch JustinTV?

Did anyone really expect this part of the policy to stay? My understanding is that they only reinstated the nudity ban, the rest of the new allowances are still allowed.
- I wasn't even sure if that was the case from the statement, seemed like they revoked the option of cartoon imagery. I expected that may be due to the complications of unrealistic body image associated with suggested age, to be vague enough to avoid an argument in my replies

Look I’m not a prude or some kinda anti-sex freak but being nekked for others to look at isn’t really ‘artistic’, it’s just about showing yer tits for…uh… titillation. I’m also art school trained so I know how to deconstruct this stuff.
Sexy-bidness is sexy-bidness. That’s fine. But don’t try to pretend it’s “art”.
- Look I’m not a prude or some kinda anti-sex freak but
  proceeds to rattle off a bunch of prudish anti-sex talking points followed by "trust me, I have a degree" 🤦
  
  This is like the "I'm not racist, but..." And then proceeds to say the most racist thing ever imagined
  
  In contemporary Western culture, there’s really no such thing as nudity without a sexual element. All this “beauty of the human form” stuff is an excuse to look at hot bods.
  It’s low-intellect stuff aimed at base instincts. Fine. Whatever.
  I’m old and have kids and not inexperienced in the ole’ rumpy pumpy. My young days of being obsessed with sex are past and I can approach the subject with some detached wisdom rather than being lead around by the whims of my penis.
  I feel sorry for current young people still in that state who are so caught up by all this social media and weird internet shit that they can’t go talk to other human beings in real life and get laid.
  Some advice then; put the fucking games DOWN and go outside and do something in REAL LIFE.
  Go volunteer to help your community.
  Go hiking in the mountains.
  Go do anything except sitting inside and watching Twitch hoping to see bewbs.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nude_(art)
- Careful now. You'll offend all the weirdo horny simps.
  
  Too late it seems.

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