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by akimbostrawman 209 days ago
Banned for the wrong reason. It's a cam girl site targeted at kids.
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Its not a cam girl site targeted at kids. There are thousands of streamers on the platform playing different games. I do agree that the pool / beach section should be closed but honestly its a minority (look at the viewer stats - kids can get porn a lot easier then twitch). Also, that section is not targeted at kids, its targeted at adults in nations with anti porn laws, which gets apparent when you look at who is donating to the streamers.
A shop showing pornography openly or use of various sex fetish toys while selling also bread is still inaccessible to any kid, so thats a pretty weak argument. Worst defines the overall situation.

Given how fucked up the recent generation in thousand little ways and addictions is, and I personally believe predatory 'social media' and overall resulting physical alienation are the largest culprit, these steps are good or at least well-intended. Those corporations are predatory, aimed at weakest and most defenseless (kids), ruining their future lives one bit at a time.

Sure, it should be mostly parents managing their kids well and giving them smart phones or consoles as late as possible in their development curve, but if something is so harmful, some regulation makes sense. 0 sympathies for meta-esque corporations, its us-vs-them due to their endless greed.

> A shop showing pornography openly or use of various sex fetish toys while selling also bread is still inaccessible to any kid, so thats a pretty weak argument. Worst defines the overall situation.

A more appropriate analogy would be a shop with a clearly marked and separate "Adults Only section"

> these steps are good or at least well-intended.

I might agree that they're well-intended - but the road to hell is paved with those.

>shop with a clearly marked and separate "Adults Only section"

But it's not. Most of them don't even have the useless "are you +18" yes/no button. They are literally featured and recommended on the homepage.

Where though? I just browsed the homepage a bit and didn't see any porn :(
Twitch is not a "cam girl site targeted at kids". It's primarily people playing games, and streaming said games.
It's probably fair to say it's both ;-)
It has not been primarily gaming for at least +5 years. Just take a look at the homepage and categories.
The only 2 non-gaming categories I saw were Chatting/IRL and Music. The majority of streams appear to still be gaming.
Pipeline to OF... And gambling... And extremist views on both sides... Actually I might ban anyone under say 25 from there...
The current Australian government looked into banning gambling advertising, consulted with the gambling lobby and decided not too.

They are a-ok with wall to wall sportsbet ads on football games. I'm sure no kids under 16 ever see those ...

Its not much different from the homeless person by the station begging for a donation