Twitch Bans Using ‘Intimate’ Body Parts As Green Screens [Kotaku got you covered on the issue]

I am so tired of this puritanical bullshit.

After some reflection and actually looking for this content on Twitch, as well as from other commenters, I am retracting what I said. It's not at all puritanical, it is simply the wrong platform for this content type. I didn't realize how far it was going on Twitch. Sorry for the knee-jerk reaction to something I didn't fully understand.
- Kudos on putting in the work. It's comments like this that show why the fediverse is better that the rest.
It not puritanical it s juste Twitch trying to not be a strip club
Seems like quite a few people want this not for puritanical reasons, but because it distracts from the actual content they want to see. There are plenty of places to see half naked women on the internet. Not to mention, women who want to stream and don't want to feel pressured to take off their clothes want these rules.

Twitch seems to be the only one with this problem. Like they keep playing wackamole with rules?

Where other social media sites just have more vague banning, but at least it doesn't deal with this.

their global mods and admins love watching these streams, until some higher up notices and drops the hammer lol
Where other social media sites just have more vague banning

Pornography is an extremely profitable industry and Twitch is not a profitable company, so they don't have the luxury of banning it entirely.

Companies like Meta are super profitable so they can totally afford that.

They should probably just add a NSFW section that's hidden from the home page.
- They should probably just add a NSFW section that's hidden from the home page.
  
  I thought they did have an NSFW section at one point, but I could be misremembering

Hey can we find a way to power the grid with horny teenagers maybe?

AI powered girlfriends encouraging them to pedal harder, it's the green energy of the future.

Kotaku is shit don’t link or support them.

I think most gaming sites are shit for different reasons.

But I'm gonna need your take so I know what type of person you are.
- Kotaku only does rage bait and polarizing content for the sake of gaining as many ad impressions as possible. And before you reply yes I do not agree with their coverage of gamergate 2 or their “journalists” intention to write hit pieces on streamers that disagree with her.
- Kotaku is shit and lacks a vision other than writing a bunch of polarizing counter culture bullshit and shouldnt be trusted to factually report on anything.

“Our goal, always, is to make Twitch a welcoming place,”

Except for titty and ass streamers, your kind isn't welcome here

Damn right!

This is technically not an intimate body part:
https://hyperallergic.com/663754/monsby-nsfw-lamp-brings-new-meaning-to-being-turned-on/

Twitch: "We're going to pay you to stream."

Also Twitch: "No, not like that, or that, or that, or that, or that..."

It's pretty well established that people go to twitch to watch people stream video games. There's occasionally game dev on it. But you know what it isn't intended for, porn, of any kind. And there's little kids on the platform, so I'd say it's a pretty good move to keep that crap off their.

Saw some of the sexually explicit stuff get suggested to me yesterday that up until now I didn't even know existed...seriously, a girl in a bathingsuit twirking her ass into the camera and asking people for money to keep doing it.

It's not a cam modeling site, it's not a porn site. If that's what you want to see, there are plenty of other platforms out there for that.
- It's pretty well established that people go to twitch to watch people stream video games
  
  Maybe that was true once, but I'm pretty sure the "Just chatting" category is almost always accounting for a massive chunk of viewership. That being said I stopped watching Twitch regularly a long time ago, so IDK for sure.
- It’s telling that the two comments disagreeing with you are by one person who doesn’t use twitch and another person who hasn’t used it in years.
  
  Needless to say I think you’re totally right. I don’t want to make it a prude platform but I also think treating it like Only Fans isn’t right either.
- I thought it was pretty well established that Twitch was like a softcore OnlyFans that caters to lonely gamers seeking parasocial relationships, but that's just my impression as someone who doesn't pay attention or care about this stuff. The few times I've looked at it the sexualized content was obvious and unavoidable.
- It's not even just girls in bikinis.
  
  They put a camera underneath a clear chair, or kneel over it, zoomed in on their butt crack and gooch, with a tiny bikini barely obscuring the naughty bits. Perhaps another one focused entirely on their feet, and the third camera, from the front, adjusted in such as way as to clip off the bottom of their clothing at the edge of their bust so they appear topless, and then lick an ear-shaped microphone while a vibrating pad makes them jiggle.
  
  It is as close to porn as you can get. Which, also, they have links in their bio to their "list of social media" - the top one of which is usually actual porn of them..
  
  I'm not saying it's wrong, but it is unsuitable for children and most people would consider it a form of porn or erotica, especially as it's a forward bastion for their actual literal porn.
- It's hilarious to me when people argue for more censorship, especially when they do the 'everyone should be treated like children' argument. It's just so dumb especially as it's coming from people who'll cry if they ban violent video games or any of the other equally problematic things that they like.
  
  Omg a woman is wearing a bikini, it'll melt children's brains if they see that! They should only be watching murder and crime and delusion political takes from manipulative liars and idiots...
- There shouldn't be kids as a lot of the games aren't suitable such as gta, etc
  
  If they must have kids on the site they should be restricted to only viewing suitable content.
  
  The rest of us shouldn't have to be restricted to kids stuff
I'm not often on twitch anymore, but the last time one of my suggested channels was a girl in a bikini lying down on a massage table gaming, with the feed split screen with a camera on her oiled ass.

I mean technically she was gaming but that was a level of blatant I couldn't even.
If their model was simply, "were going to pay you to stream," then it would instantly be another egirl cam site which is not inherently right or wrong.

They don't want that. It's their platform, their server space, and their rules. Similar to who you allow in your home and what you allow them to do, they decide who and what if allowed on their platform.

The "why" doesn't even matter. Maybe it's run by a far right Christian. Maybe they don't want the liability. Maybe they have a vision for what their platform is and isn't. It doesn't matter. It's their property and they decide what's allowed.
- I think a lot of people are under the false impression that when a private entity becomes ubiquitous enough it somehow magically becomes a public service, because I keep seeing them spout first amendment claims whenever someone gets banned or demonetized off youtube ...