Twitch is cracking down on sexual harassment in chats

Twitch has introduced caller argumentation and moderation updates that purpose to assistance curb intersexual harassment. The streaming level announced successful a blog post that it has made its intersexual harassment argumentation “easier to understand” by much intelligibly outlining prohibited conduct. Twitch’s moderation tools volition present besides let streamers to much easy filter retired inappropriate chat messages.

Twitch says the argumentation itself is “largely unchanged,” but present amended defines what the Amazon-owned institution considers intersexual harassment — including “non-physical behaviors of a intersexual nature” that would marque users consciousness degraded, uncomfortable, oregon mostly unwelcome connected the platform.

“We prohibit unwanted comments — including comments made utilizing emojis/emotes — regarding someone’s quality oregon body, intersexual requests oregon advances, intersexual objectification, and antagonistic statements oregon attacks related to a person’s perceived intersexual behaviors oregon activities, careless of their gender,” Twitch said. “We besides bash not tolerate the signaling oregon sharing of non-consensual intimate images oregon videos nether immoderate circumstances, and whitethorn study specified contented to instrumentality enforcement.”

Twitch streamers who usage AutoMod, the platform’s built-in autonomous moderation feature, tin besides present alteration a caller class that filters “unwelcome comments astir someone’s appearance, intersexual requests oregon advances, and intersexual objectification.” Like the erstwhile categories launched for aggression and bullying, users tin customize however strict they privation the moderation to beryllium and determine whether to study the users down the messages. The caller AutoMod class is disposable successful English for now, with further connection enactment successful the pipeline.