For those who are unaware, Twitch is a livestreaming website and the largest one with regards computer games but it has a lot of streamers that focus on other things such art or other forms of content. There are even lightly and lewdly dressed women that offer what can only be called soft-core pornography on there.
Twitch has for a very long time explicitly allowed people to stream games depicting nudity and even sex as long as it's not "main focus" of the game and stream. In other words, you are allowed to show and stream sex scenes in games like Baldurs Gate 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 as long as you don't focus upon this "excessively", but hentai porn games are prohibited. This was under the reasoning that such depictions were not "pornographic" but "artistic".
But the Twitch TOS contained a big bizaree double standard: while "artistic" nudity and sex was permitted for games it was ironically NOT permitted for actual art. In other words, you could watch the artists final results as implemented in a game but not watch them actually make it.
In other words, art was not covered by the "artistic nudity" exemption. Artist literally had to put up fiq leaves to hide genitals and nipples while someone streaming Cyberpunk 2077 showed off topless strippers poledancing. (There is a part early in Cyberpunk that literally shoves a nude "erotic dancing" holographic woman in your face.)
Now there are a lot of things you can reasonably criticize Twitch for. Horrible discoverability, ads that blow your eardrums out, bugs that apparently never will be fixed, inconsistent and arbitrary TOS enforcement with no transparency are just to name a few.
But at least they now decided to fix this really bizarre double standard that makes no sense, right? It was in their own words overly punitive toward mature content creators. Surely it's okay for people to stream themselves drawing images of nude Renaissance sculptures if people are showing heads blown apart or topless women bouncing boobily on the sidewalk?
Well apparently not. People who were following the new rules were banned, supposedly by "mistake", and Twitch quickly walked back the changes while explicitly stating this walkback does not effect the games you are allowed to stream.
Drawing a sketch of Michelangelos David is prohibited yet again as it's not apparently worthy of being considered "artistic".
Yet one can hope this but a temporary walkback and people (and by this I mean you ******* Americans) get your bearings straight and start acting sensible.
Twitch has for a very long time explicitly allowed people to stream games depicting nudity and even sex as long as it's not "main focus" of the game and stream. In other words, you are allowed to show and stream sex scenes in games like Baldurs Gate 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 as long as you don't focus upon this "excessively", but hentai porn games are prohibited. This was under the reasoning that such depictions were not "pornographic" but "artistic".
But the Twitch TOS contained a big bizaree double standard: while "artistic" nudity and sex was permitted for games it was ironically NOT permitted for actual art. In other words, you could watch the artists final results as implemented in a game but not watch them actually make it.
In other words, art was not covered by the "artistic nudity" exemption. Artist literally had to put up fiq leaves to hide genitals and nipples while someone streaming Cyberpunk 2077 showed off topless strippers poledancing. (There is a part early in Cyberpunk that literally shoves a nude "erotic dancing" holographic woman in your face.)
Now there are a lot of things you can reasonably criticize Twitch for. Horrible discoverability, ads that blow your eardrums out, bugs that apparently never will be fixed, inconsistent and arbitrary TOS enforcement with no transparency are just to name a few.
But at least they now decided to fix this really bizarre double standard that makes no sense, right? It was in their own words overly punitive toward mature content creators. Surely it's okay for people to stream themselves drawing images of nude Renaissance sculptures if people are showing heads blown apart or topless women bouncing boobily on the sidewalk?
Well apparently not. People who were following the new rules were banned, supposedly by "mistake", and Twitch quickly walked back the changes while explicitly stating this walkback does not effect the games you are allowed to stream.
Drawing a sketch of Michelangelos David is prohibited yet again as it's not apparently worthy of being considered "artistic".
Yet one can hope this but a temporary walkback and people (and by this I mean you ******* Americans) get your bearings straight and start acting sensible.
via International Skeptics Forum https://ift.tt/4ROfN0J
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