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Twitch Reverses Policy on 'Artistic Nudity' After Just Two Days

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Re: Twitch Reverses Policy on 'Artistic Nudity' After Just Two Days

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Post by MeImCounting »

freshbus wrote: post #20
MeImCounting wrote: post #3

Its wild that in the current year we are still allowing prehistoric puritan "ethics" to make decisions for us. I dont use twitch and never have but our societies sexual repression is so pervasive its shocking.

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It seems like you use twitch a lot.

Why is twitch different from say deviantart where theres lots of non-pornographic art as well a significant amount of NSFW art?

Is this to say that the twitch community is more likely to draw CP compared to other online communities? Or perhaps that all porn should be banned across the web? I dont really understand why twitch should be different from any other platform where people share that kind of content

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Post by jrflowers »

theonething wrote: post #14
__s wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This puritanism is neither so greatly long lived, nor globally distributed

It's been around for at least 2000 years.

Exactly. When you look back 2000 years to Greek and Roman societies they shied away from any nude depictions of the human form. Nudity as we see it in society nowadays has only been around since the invention of Playboy in the 1950s

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Post by alanwreath »

krapp wrote: post #16
thegrim22 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe the morals our societies have held for hundreds/thousands of years around moral decency and civility had a point. But I guess I'm glad you're wiser than all the generations that came before you, and you know better than all of them.

The morals our societies held for hundreds/thousands of years were held to justify slavery, blood sacrifice, antisemitism, genocide, rape, witch hunts, inquisitions, white supremacy, child labor and countless other once noble and virtuous ends now considered among humanity's greatest atrocities and horrors. Of course that also depends on when and where you look, because those morals have also evolved over time even w…

> morals our societies held for hundreds/thousands of years were held to justify slavery, blood sacrifice, antisemitism, genocide…

People will be people with or without religion, no need to make the leap and claim the reason for the season was to retain all the horrible practices you describe.

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Post by MeImCounting »

alanwreath wrote: post #25
krapp wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The morals our societies held for hundreds/thousands of years were held to justify slavery, blood sacrifice, antisemitism, genocide, rape, witch hunts, inquisitions, white supremacy, child labor and countless other once noble and virtuous ends now considered among humanity's greatest atrocities and horrors. Of course that also depends on when and where you look, because those morals have also evolved over time even w…

> morals our societies held for hundreds/thousands of years were held to justify slavery, blood sacrifice, antisemitism, genocide… People will be people with or without religion, no need to make the leap and claim the reason for the season was to retain all the horrible practices you describe.

Religion may not have been the reason those things were done but has absolutely been used to justify every one of those things. Religion is the tool not necessarily the cause.

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Post by chetumal »

MeImCounting wrote: post #8
edflsafoiewq wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit and Twitter (and old Tumblr) all have robust porn and non-porn content.

I cant actually think of any website thats gone the way the parent describes. Most website that have both do fine having both and its always corporate puritan ethics that causes porn to become its own separate site.

Taringa and Poringa are examples, websites from Argentina, very popular from the mid 2000's to around mid 2010's. As far as I know they had the same owner and used the same software. Taringa was basically a forum where most content was links to download any kind of pirated content (except porn), and Poringa was that but for porn.

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Post by mx_03 »

SilverBirch wrote: post #5

This issue would be much easier to solve if Twitch weren't owned by Amazon. Any platform is either porn or not porn. If you allow porn, if the porn is successful it'll drive everything else out. So either you have a platform that is not-porn, and bans porn, or it's porn and it's only got porn. The easy thing to do as a business would be to just have Twitch, and then have a sister company Twatch that allows porn. All…

Wasnt that how twitch started?

A sister company of JustinTV and then they closed JustinTV because it didnt make sense

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Post by theonething »

jrflowers wrote: post #24
theonething wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's been around for at least 2000 years.

Exactly. When you look back 2000 years to Greek and Roman societies they shied away from any nude depictions of the human form. Nudity as we see it in society nowadays has only been around since the invention of Playboy in the 1950s

> Exactly. When you look back 2000 years to Greek and Roman societies they shied away from any nude depictions of the human form. Nudity as we see it in society nowadays has only been around since the invention of Playboy in the 1950s

Right. When I stated that puritan morality existed 2000 years ago, that totally means that there were no displays of nudity at all back then. Everything has to be 100% one way or the other after all. The idea that different kinds of morality could exist among different groups of people, even across individuals, in the world in the same time period is just absurd isn't it?

Re: Twitch Reverses Policy on 'Artistic Nudity' After Just Two Days

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Post by [deleted] »

theonething wrote: post #29
jrflowers wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly. When you look back 2000 years to Greek and Roman societies they shied away from any nude depictions of the human form. Nudity as we see it in society nowadays has only been around since the invention of Playboy in the 1950s

> Exactly. When you look back 2000 years to Greek and Roman societies they shied away from any nude depictions of the human form. Nudity as we see it in society nowadays has only been around since the invention of Playboy in the 1950s Right. When I stated that puritan morality existed 2000 years ago, that totally means that there were no displays of nudity at all back then. Everything has to be 100% one way or the ot…

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