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Twitch Rescinds Policy That Allowed 'Artistic Nudity' (engadget.com) 41

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Malak Saleh reports via Engadget: Twitch has quickly taken back its policy update that permitted users to post sexual content as long as it was labeled. In another update, the company said it is not going to allow any depictions of real or fictional nudity on its streaming platform. After giving users the green light to post "artistic nudity," Twitch says some streamers created content that violated policy.

The media streamed in response to the initial approval of sexually explicit content on Twitch was "met with community concern," according to the update. The company said, "We have decided that we went too far with this change." While a huge part of the initial decision was to allow for the "digital depiction" of artistic nudity, the company clarified that digital depictions of sexual content is a concern when artificial intelligence can be used to develop realistic images and that it can be difficult to discern between what's been digitally produced and real photography.
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  • Probably a prudent choice... (Score:5, Insightful)

    by sarren1901 ( 5415506 ) on Friday December 15, 2023 @05:52PM (#64084735)

    Someone thought they could cash in on selling sex but it's probably prudent to keep porn off their platform, artistically depicted or otherwise.

    • Re: Probably a prudent choice... (Score:5, Insightful)

      by RegistrationIsDumb83 ( 6517138 ) on Friday December 15, 2023 @06:02PM (#64084767)
      More like a prude choice. As long as it's correctly labeled and filtered so it's only shown to those who want it, viewers are fine with adult content.

      • Re: Probably a prudent choice... (Score:5, Insightful)

        by darkain ( 749283 ) on Friday December 15, 2023 @06:09PM (#64084783) Homepage

        VIEWERS may be, but are advertisers? In the end, to the business, that's the only thing they really give a shit about.

      • Re: (Score:3, Interesting)

        by iAmWaySmarterThanYou ( 10095012 )

        There are already zillions of video porn sites. Twitch would not improve their service by being just one more video porn service.

        I suspect someone naively believed they could somehow have only "artistic" nudity but then ran face first into internet reality.

        Anyway there's nothing wrong with being prudish. There's plenty enough porn. Not having it makes them more interesting and requires content to be higher quality since they can't just flash adult parts.

        • More likely someone was getting horny thinking about tentacle anime.

          • We'll never know but having seen it once I don't see the attraction. It made me laugh.

            Tbh I was trying to give benefit of the doubt. Much more likely some exec thought they'd make money on porn but higher level person saw it was going to destroy their company and killed it.

      • Re: Probably a prudent choice... (Score:5, Insightful)

        by quantaman ( 517394 ) on Friday December 15, 2023 @06:39PM (#64084835)

        More like a prude choice. As long as it's correctly labeled and filtered so it's only shown to those who want it, viewers are fine with adult content.

        I think social media companies do have the right to cultivate the kind of community and culture they want on their sites, and I think that's a big part of what Twitch is doing here.

        From what I can tell Twitch's bread&butter comes from young men watching gamers steaming, outside of a handful of games there's not a lot of nudity there.

        Meanwhile, if adult content does start showing up then Twitch starts getting a reputation for nudity. Now parents of teenage boys are trying to keep them off the app and even boys start getting shy about using Twitch (they don't want their friends thinking they're watching porn).

        It's far simpler for Twitch to double down on its reputation as a no-nudity platform.

        • It's far simpler for Twitch to double down on its reputation as a no-nudity platform.

          Is it though? Many major major games have let a tit slip here or there. Banning a popular streamer because they took their cloths off in Baldur's Gate 3 to gain a performance bonus check in a conversation doesn't seem like it's a simple cut case here. In some major games it's not even avoidable, e.g. Cyberpunk has you carry a naked women in the opening scene.

          "Artistic nudity" is prevalent in many games dating back beyond pixel art strippers in Duke Nukem 3D. It seems like this kind of thing is something tha

        • What alternate world do you live in where twitch's reputation isn't a soft-core porn side that openly tolerates explicit sex and nudity from its most profitable titty-streamers?

      • I have looked and looked and have not found a way to filter out by tag on Twitch. You can search by tag but you can't filter out tags you don't like from any listing I've seen.

      • Re: Probably a prudent choice... (Score:4, Insightful)

        by Z80a ( 971949 ) on Saturday December 16, 2023 @12:08AM (#64085309)

        Its the mastercard choice most likely.
        That company is prude as hell.

      • There are a million adult livestream platforms. Twitch is for kids to watch other people play video games. Unless you are one of those suspect people that want to sexualize kids early this decision makes all the sense in the world.
      • Most of the streamers I watch have to label their content as containing violence, profanity, sexual themes etc. despite their behaviour being tame, just so that they can stream the video games they wish to stream.

        Rampant scope creep is killing Twitch, and they lack the nuance to fix the problem they have created. Right now, their site does not and cannot adequately differentiate between mature uses of drugs, alcohol, racism, profanity, nudity, sexuality and violence in ways which make sense. There is no

      • Re: (Score:3)

        by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

        Some streamers were doing "topless" sessions where they framed themselves so that they appeared topless, but only showed cleavage.

        Twitch banned those streams, and there was outcry. Twitch then allowed them, but in the artistic category. That category became 90% soft porn overnight.

        That's why they are banning nudity.

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by Ksevio ( 865461 )

          They're still out there though. Take a look at the "Just chatting" category and you'll see a few girls with their tits hanging out just out of frame. It's helped cut down on the people that was streaming straight up porn games but it's still a mess

      • Hot take: not everyone endorses unfiltered juvenile access to porn.

        Crazy, huh?

    • Prude or prudent, who am I to decide...

    • I like porn, you like porn, everyone likes porn. Even people who publicly crusade against porn always eventually get outed as being consumers of porn.

      But porn doesn't have to be everywhere and embedded into everything we do. It's nice to occasionally have a place where there is no porn. And nobody can even define what the fuck "artistic porn" even is.

      • Re: (Score:2, Troll)

        by NomDeAlias ( 10449224 )
        Not everyone likes the idea of supplying porn to children. Do you?

      • >I like porn, you like porn, everyone likes porn

        I treat that as axiomatic. The devil is in the details, though. Plenty of people think their porn isn't really porn while yours is filthy and vile and you need to be punished for liking it.

        And that's just the Victoria's secret catalogue.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by BigFire ( 13822 )

      OnlyFan already got that part covered. Quite a few porn actress are making OnlyFan videos as supplement, if not outright their primary income source.

  • No one would ever abuse (Score:5, Funny)

    by Major_Disorder ( 5019363 ) on Friday December 15, 2023 @05:54PM (#64084741)
    That sort of policy would/could never be abused. I have never heard of such a thing happening on the internet.

  • Since some people were turning twitch into something nearly like an adult chat video cam service, which was making them money but they made even more hoping over to OF, twitch was like..but..but..we could get some of that money! and tried to allow it.

    It's quite frankly disgusting. Everything has to turn to that, there is a place for sexual content, and there should be, but stop trying to hijack everything into it. . Leave our games alone
    Honestly I barely use twitch anymore once it stopped being about gaming

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  • Isn't Twitch soft porn already? (Score:4)

    by quonset ( 4839537 ) on Friday December 15, 2023 @06:25PM (#64084813)

    With all the "gamer" girls showing their stuff, this attempted change to artistic nudity wasn't far fetched. It was merely the implementation.

  • I guarantee the original decision to allow it was spearheaded by an anime porn addled brain that makes love to their waifu pillow during work hours.

  • Just register a new domain titsch.com, with all the content including the censored ones. Problem solved.

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