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Twitch immediately rescinds its artistic nudity policy
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So weird the moral panic that was happening from this lmao. People are way too obsessed with kids seeing nudity, every generation grew up trying to see porn, from boomer magazines to fuzzy ppv on channels you didn't have access to to sneaking it on a laptop, I don't see how this is effectively different lol.
Whatsmore is that there's this pretending like the Internet isn't one giant ecosystem. There's literally nothing stopping kids from opening up pornhub, or if it's blocked some other million sites to choose from, on another tab and saying they're 18 lol. Why does it fucking matter if twitch allows some nudity on there?
Apparently this is a hot take: porn should be age-gated.
Nudity isn't the same thing as porn and while you can argue that twitch's new policy bans too much, it's inarguable that many streams were pornographic. Kids shouldn't be suggested streams of girls twerking on their Fortnite website.
Also I think pornhub and similar porn sites should do more to filter out children.
it's not a hot take, it's what everyone is saying in the discourse. i'm saying there's nothing to be done about it and kids looking for porno and finding it before they're of age is a ubiquitous experience throughout multiple generations and i do not think this is particularly different.
you can dislike this but i mean it's just reality.
There is something to be done about it... like not hosting porn on the same website that kids use to watch Minecraft, for starters. And it's being shown to everyone, not just people that are looking for it.
I'm saying it's one tab over, no matter what. The Internet is one giant place.
I grew up on the internet, I'm talking about my own experience lol.
I think it's denying reality to think that taking porn off one website somehow makes it any safer for kids when they can literally open a browser tab and go to 4chan at the same time they're watching twitch.
Put a little "are you 18 and older" pop up in front of the channel and filter it out of the main content feed, or have a setting to "view adult content" with a parental lock on it for the ones paying any attention
Respectfully, that's a terrible attitude to have. If you can't think past your horny self, then think of the girls who have to grow up seeing women sexualized in the games they play and on the websites they use.
Taking porn off a website makes that website safer for kids, that's not denying reality. It's not that complicated dude. By your logic, every website including this one should be flooded with gore too because anyone can "literally open a browser tab and go to 4chan at the same time"
I'm just saying it's not worth having a moral panic about, not that it doesn't make sense to moderate and filter content. Or at least that is what I'm intending to say rather.
I.e. I don't buy "think of the children" arguments because there is much, much worse shit going on than a kid seeing some boobs.