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Twitch immediately rescinds its artistic nudity policy (www.theverge.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Twitch immediately rescinds its artistic nudity policy::Twitch has rolled back the artistic nudity portion of its sexual policy that allowed previously prohibited forms of sexual content.

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[+] [email protected] 70 points 10 months ago (57 children)

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (48 children)

There are a million sites one can go for camgirls and strip teases, and Twitch shouldn't be one of them. It's a site about gaming streams. The only reason Twitch did this in the first place is to try and save face when people accused them of disproportionately banning female streamers. It was a bad move from the start.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (18 children)

Which is not "artistic nudity". Unless you are one of those loonies who protests outside of museums.

Rather than actually moderate the people abusing it because GASP women might wear something other than a burka*, it just became a blanket ban like it used to be. Except video games still get the exception because God specifically wrote on the ten commandments that we are allowed to see dick and titties in a GTA but can never see one in a painting.

*: Seriously. How do those fucks survive walking down the street? Let alone going to a beach

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

To be fair Rockstar was really the company that normalized nudity in games. Not that is is normalized, I can only think of a handful of companies that have done it in mainstream games. Cd project red gamed and that Conan exiles or whatever mmo where you get a dick? Honestly can't think of others.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Like most things, "eurojank" and PC games had been doing it for decades since then. In large part because, once you get out of the US, nudity is just a thing as opposed to THE GREATEST THREAT TO HUMANITY BECAUSE BABY JESUS!!!!

Like, I have seen plenty of clips of streamers learning that playing older FMV games is a minefield for that reason. And those tend to be more "discretionary" rather than "We have decided that you can see Astarion's dick"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

This is a very Eurocentric statement. Many other countries in the world actually have more restrictive rules and mores around nudity than the US does.

But personally I think nudity should be protected as part of the human right to free expression.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Many other countries in the world actually have more restrictive rules and mores around nudity than the US does.

Like Saudi Arabia, yes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Also China and India, so like a quarter to a third of the world's population

Note that they're all culturally conservative, oppressive places though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nudity has been normalized in video games since at least Custer's Revenge for the Atari 2600, if not earlier.