Twitch will ban people pretending to be naked

Twitch is changing its sexual content policies again, this time to prohibit implied nudity on the platform. The platform already prohibits nudity, but Twitch’s new attire policy, which goes into effect today, also doesn’t allow streamers to “imply or suggest that they are fully or partially nude,” chief customer trust officer Angela Hession .

This policy change comes after Twitch’s recently loosened policies on sexual content. Twitch updated its sexual content policies in December to allow as long as it was labeled correctly. However, just two days later, it rescinded part of the newly updated policy that following “community concern.” Creators continued to push the boundaries of the new policy, as creators are wont to do.

Some found ways that they are fully or partly nude while streaming. For example, they may have positioned the camera in such a way as to indicate that they may be naked. Hession says that while most streamers have labeled their content correctly as having sexual themes (which hides the posts from Twitch’s homepage), users might still see potentially suggestive thumbnails while browsing the site.

Here is the new policy, the bolded emphasis is Hession’s: Hession also says it is working on a way for streams tagged as having sexual themes to have blurred thumbnails and a way for users to filter out content based on how the content is labeled. But basically... the entire opening sequence of is now forbidden under this updated policy.

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