Topic: Do you remember when Twitch banned gambling? Now they allow nudity! - page 3. (Read 380 times)

I find it funny that most p*rn websites can be accessed in our country (Philippines) but if you try to search online gambling platforms (e.g. Stake.com), our ISP has automatically banned it saying that "we should stay away from it." I will try to get a screenshot here so that everyone could see it!

Anyway, I do think that gambling has more impact compared to pornography. I mean, the only method that porn websites do to prevent minors from accessing their website is to press "accept" or "deny" if you are above 18. After that, you're in (no pun intended). But to most gambling websites, it contains stringent regulations in order for you to cash your proceeds out.

This is a high level of hypocrisy, banning gambling that you can watch and ignore and allowing nudity that can entice and even hypnotize the viewer. I quite disagree with members that thinks that gambling is more harmful than nudity, because I've educated my underaged son who asked me questions about gambling. So if he starts to see nudity at his age, how do I start to educate him about homones at his tender age?

I guess nudity can bring more traffic than gambling, if it's so then it'll be choosing the one that's more profitable to them, although it still beats me because gambling is also very profitable. We'll just watch and see how it plays out in the near future.

Centralised organisations will act in the manner they deem fit to protect the interest of the business. They can also make decisions without considering if it is a double standard or not, all they want is to sustain the business and make a profit. Twitch stopped gambling ads because of pressure from its users because of a streamer who scammed many people to fund his gambling addiction. They had to bow to pressure to protect the platform's interest.

But I also think that the privilege of showcasing artistic nudity is abnormal considering that children will be exposed to it. But they will claim that they are promoting arts and the contents are not real. Maybe they might reconsider this decision if there are complaints that a streamer defrauded users and other content creators to fuel pornography addiction due to this artistic content. Maybe Twitch prefers to be reactive rather than proactive.

We don't need to compare which is less evil or not, both nudity and gambling has a negative effect not just to young viewers, especially teens. If you ask what are the possible negative effects of allowing nudity, there are a lot especially to a teenager's mind. I don't want to be a hyprocite but being exposed early in such content might corrupt people's mind, it's absurd to think it will help countries with low birth rates. How about countries with high crime rate due to sexual acts.

This is surely a double standard by twitch. If they have decided to allow artistic nudity is same as pornography because those are going to be explicit pictures running in the mind of people including children. Nudity and gambling are suppose to be to the exclusive reserve of adults but with such nudity, children are going to be at risk.

To stream art works with naked bodies is only going to corrupt children more and the reason for banning gambling on their platform is more or less defeated.

I will not demean or badmouth other people here but it turns out that apart from gamblers who misunderstand gambling, even the development team or owner of a streaming platform has a mistake in understanding gambling and this has been visible from the start when Twitch considered gambling to be an outrageous act and gave permission about pornographic content.
from these 2 mistakes it is very clear that Twitch has made a mistake in understanding these 2 concepts because what we know for sure is that gambling is just entertainment like video games, whereas Twitch is a streaming platform about games and if Twitch thinks that gambling encourages someone to waste money, what about games? who has to make a deposit to buy items in the game shop?
and what's funnier or more ridiculous, Twitch is no longer a place for gamers to stream but a place to show body shape and sexiness for the sake of existence.

I dont know what influences all of this, but what is more precise is that the platform has an unfair view, only judging from several parties, so that it considers gambling as inappropriate behavior and has a bad impact in the long term, but Twitch doesn't think that sexy or pornographic content has a bad impact. also in the long term like rape etc.
and sometimes I'm very confused thinking about the platforms that are currently changing a lot of rules for the worse and one of them is the platform that is being discussed and I used to be there often but lately I dont have any interest in watching there.

even though in my opinion, if Twitch chooses to maintain gambling, it will definitely increase revenue and new people register on the platform, plus allowing sexy or pornographic content will make Twitch even bigger, but unfortunately it's a ridiculous decision from only one party.

I don't usually get why you need to post like this. It's clear that Twitch allows only "Adult content such as nude drawings and sculptures are now permitted on streaming site Twitch - as long as it is deemed artistic.". Twitch only allows what they consider to be "artistic" nudity in the form of drawings and sculptures. Gambling content on social media like Twitch can be misleading because people often fake their winnings to promote their affiliate links and attract more players. Twitch has a policy against gambling content to protect its young audience. Because gambling can be harmful, and Twitch wants to make sure their users stay safe. They value their users and want to provide a responsible environment for them.

None is better, the both can mislead young people.  When a teenager comes across a platform where nudity is being showcase it can really affect the person to things at an early stage when it is not the right time to live in such life. Maybe they feel gambling is dangerous that is why they didn't accept it in their platform, they  might be considering young people that is why they didn't accept gambling in their platform,  because it can really affect the life of young people to do terrible thing just to satisfy their urge in gambling.  I think they have reasons for such decisions because if we should compare the act they are not the same.

    -   If we look at it, it is better that they get benefits from gambling than from nudity like that. Because, for sure, there are many communities in different parts of the world that can lose their communities.

We also do not know what is going through the mind of the owner of Twitch, but even so, it may be temporary, and it is also possible that in the present or in the future they will bring back the gambling streaming. I'm not very updated on Twitch.

This is really a case of double standard. The proponents of the ban might just be people having personal grievance or people whose religions background do not support gambling, what they could come up with is a ban hiding under incoherent reasons. I just imagine Twitter (X) banning gambling, that soundss ridiculous. 

What I also find strange is that gaming is not banned, even P2E games and other form of games that are similar to gambling. This is why I consider that decision double standard. If there is anything that should be banned for public safety, then nudity should top the list.

I think I remember that news when they've became too strict with gambling contents from the streamers. It is ironic that they're too hard and forceful with gambling but when it's come to nudity that many children does see these contents as well, they're soft.

It's certainly double standards on their end but it's likely that they're earning more with those nudity contents. Anyway, we can always expect from them that they'll be like this and against gambling contents.

But when it's about these contents that they should censor, they won't.

This is not a double standard but the only standard for twitch and other centralized platforms. The problem is that these are centralized bodies and they can make whatever decision they like or think is good for their own self. We, as an audience, have no rights other than to boycott the Twitch in case we feel that they are making double standard rules and allowing things like porn that may be bad for society.

By then, how many people will boycott? the number will be very few, so less that it won't have any effect on the Twitch platform and user base. This is why we need these platforms to be replaced by the decentralized ones where the decision will be taken by the public.

All we can do is laugh at these things. Or can we report it? Maybe.

It's truly a double standard. Maybe the owner behind Twitch likes it more when it comes to pornography than gambling. Well, it's not that expensive and they offer yearly subscriptions while in gambling they are going to waste a lot of money if it becomes a habit. It's better to just waste energy jerking off. 
Seriously, I think it caused them trouble when streamers started live videos of gambling. It's not just about traditional belief but because of the rising amount of gambling addicts in the world. But the only problem that I saw is they want to look good and yet here we are talking about the nudity streamers which is not right for many Christians and other religions.
How I really wish my kids wouldn't bump into that website while they are growing up.

The silliness created by Twitch, and it could be because they lost a lot of money after deciding to ban gambling content, but it's only a matter of time until they finally allow gambling again because they don't want income to be reduced any longer.
Gambling and Nudity are both damaging if accessed by people who are not old enough to be responsible for the content being accessed, but unfortunately more people associate gambling with worse, making many platforms take steps to ban gambling even though it can be overcome with age restrictions.

Their principles in making this decision regarding the treatment of gambling and the acceptance of nudity on Twitch are noticeable and questionable. They banned gambling because they believed it could not provide sufficient consumer protections that could lead to financial hardship and addiction. However, it's confusing because Twitch prohibits nudity, inappropriate attire, pornography, and sexually explicit or suggestive content, yet they allow certain streams that contain sexual themes if they provide an appropriate label. I understand the decision to allow artistic nudity to support a broader range of content and expression on the platform. However, it would be better if the boundaries were clearly defined to ensure that the content remains appropriate for its audience.

nowadays society is already at its lowest point, I remember that a few years ago many people complained that they shouldn't put gambling sites on Facebook and Instagram. Fortunately, the casinos have their Instagram pages without causing too much headache, but on Instagram women are almost naked in the photos, it has become something very normal and when you look at the USA you realize that in the USA it has become normal for women to walk in the streets with little clothing during the day and when women in the US go to parties and clubs, they put on little clothing that makes it look like their intention is that they are going to expose their body for sale

The owners of these platforms live in the USA, if I'm not wrong, so they are part of American society and obviously, being scantily clad is normal for women in the USA, so on these social networks there will be no prohibition on people exposing their bodies and that's it. because the US government does not prohibit this exposure of women's bodies, but in the case of gambling the US government, like many governments, has been much tougher and for this reason the owners of these social networks are intimidated and forced to sometimes restrict gambling. I believe there is nothing that can be done to make things change.

Every platform owner has rights and obligations regarding how their platform operates, well in some countries nudity is not considered a form of wrongdoing, while gambling is considered a form of wrongdoing, if we want to complain then it is a wrong action, there is something wrong with it.  i think, if Twitch doesn't ban nudity then Twitch developers definitely want to move towards providing pornographic content, in some countries this is banned, this is like a boomerang for them, banning gambling content but allowing nudity.

The first negative effect would be exploitation.  To get more views and audience those who wanted to earn more often exploit minors.  They might declare that the person involved is more than 18 years old and they can fake it.

Artistic nudity is not that bad since it has something to do with art but I wonder how they can filter artistic nudity from pornography, and the filter of the actors or models used in such artistic nudity content.


Nudity and gambling are two different industries, so they can approve one and completely shut one.  It is the call of the platform owner IMHO.

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[1]https://educateempowerkids.org/8-harmful-effects-of-pornography-on-individuals/

Their platform, their rules. Just take it with a grain of salt, I guess.

Since that revamp on sexual content can be considered as a new change in the platform, for sure the community will voiced their concern and expect some changes over changes in no time. Let's just wait for the platform's reaction after a brief period of time. If you think the platforms annoys you, try to ignore them for now. Aside from that, Twitch is a growing platform and most likely will end up what Youtube is currently today where lots of content, at a different genre, are being subject for aggressive moderation as they are being regulated more.

If the platform are against gambling-related services but allowing nudity, we should look deeply the specific term regarding that.

(P.S: I'm not really sure about what kind of nudity are being referred here. I doubt they will put almost an XXX content there. )

Of course, who will not forget about this moved from Twitch.
Introducing something new in their platform doesn't mean you go into this kind of feature. Allowing Nudity in the platform will surely affect the reputation of this site and for sure the regulations will also look into this. Banning Gambling on their platform is quiet acceptable since its harmful but with this, I think they are just trying to get back the viewers that they've loss since their last update, this is not a good move for me and nudity should not be easily available online especially there's a lot of underage using their platform by simply changing their identity.