Twitch Relents And Allows Breastfeeding On Stream Amid Controversy

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Last week, Twitch partner Heather “HeatheredEffect” Kent breastfed her baby while talking to a friend and streaming on Twitch. She didn’t draw attention to the act; however Twitch ended up deleting a clip of the moment, and the incident sparked a debate about whether or not breastfeeding should be considered sexual content. After further consideration amid a raging backlash, Twitch has backtracked, and declared that breastfeeding does not violate its terms of service.

On Twitter, Kent thanked streamers and others who had her back/front while people accused her of using her child as a means of bypassing Twitch’s rules around sexualized content.

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* Mom and baby are doing fine
 
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I'm confused by this story. Was she wearing a shirt like in the still photo where only a small portion of the breast is exposed for the baby's mouth? If so why was anyone bothering in the first place?
 
I couldn't care less about her tits, but are people so narcissistic that they have to keep livestreaming every personal moment of their sorry lives and prostituting their children? It's rhetorical.
 
VoloxitySF said:
Soon there will be thousands of breast feeding mothers on Twitch. lol. I know for a fact that if my mother saw this story she would think "wtf?"
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They're already on Youtube, oh and plenty of them are sexualized, they know they what they're doing. Breastfeeding in public? Go for it, you can't control when your child is hungry. But live streaming or making 200 youtube clips? Yeah sure.. "educational".
 
Hmm. Time and a place for everything. I fully support desexualizing and allowing women to breastfeed where they need to. But I’m just not sure about doing it while streaming.

On the other hand she’s in her own home and if she didn’t draw attention to it, why give a fuck? If it hadn’t been (likely reported and) removed all of this would be a non issue.
 
NickJames said:
They're already on Youtube, oh and plenty of them are sexualized, they know they what they're doing. Breastfeeding in public? Go for it, you can't control when your child is hungry. But live streaming or making 200 youtube clips? Yeah sure.. "educational".
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So, it's OK to feed your child in public, but if you're streaming and your kid gets hungry they should be condemned for not immediately stopping the stream? Isn't it the same thing?

Edit: "Pandering to a fetish" Ok, I can buy that. And it's potentially a saved clip. Fair enough.
 
odditory said:
Last week, Twitch partner Heather “HeatheredEffect” Kent breastfed her baby while talking to a friend and streaming on Twitch. She didn’t draw attention to the act; however Twitch ended up deleting a clip of the moment, and the incident sparked a debate about whether or not breastfeeding should be considered sexual content. After further consideration amid a considerable backlash, Twitch has backtracked, and said that breastfeeding does not violate its terms of service.

On Twitter, Kent thanked streamers and others who had her back while people accused her of using her child as a means of bypassing Twitch’s rules around sexualized content.

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Typical thot. Just move along and ignore. It's pointless trying to fight against the army of white knights at Twitch when they literally run the place.
 
Fix Me said:
So, it's OK to feed your child in public, but if you're streaming and your kid gets hungry they should be condemned for not immediately stopping the stream? Isn't it the same thing?
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I don't think anyone should live stream ever, regardless of how many clothing items they are wearing or how many babies they are holding :p
 
The problem with this debate is as follows:

1.) Breastfeeding is a natural part of motherhood and not a sex act.

2.) The female breast is also an erogenous zone that causes arousal in the opposite sex (or the same if that's your thing)

It is both, not one or the other.

Just like how taking a piss is a natural body function, that also happens to utilize a sex organ.

Based on this it is appropriate to practice some modesty. I'm not saying "don't feed your baby if it is hungry", but maybe come prepared, seek a sheltered spot semi out of sight, and use some sort of modesty cover, don't fucking broadcast it to the world.

If we are OK with immodest public breastfeeding, we should also be OK with full frontal male urination. Both are just as natural and non-sexual.

I'm so sick and tired of people making everything to do with a child somehow special and in its own category. There is nothing "magical" about motherhood. It's just nature. Lets treat it like we do everything else.
 
Taking dumps is a natural bodily function and not sexual, yet there are videos of people taking sexual dumps on other people all over the internet for money. If I can't piss on a tree in an emergency without fearing jail time, mama thot shouldn't be able to whip out her tits on a stream for bits.
 
Peeing and Pooping are also natural body functions that we need to do to live, while not exactly the same category as breasfeeding, I think it should also be done as privately as possible.
 
Rockenrooster said:
Peeing and Pooping are also natural body functions that we need to do to live, while not exactly the same category as breasfeeding, I think it should also be done as privately as possible.
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Welcome to the new age of man, where anything goes and decency is forgotten for the desires of a few.
 
Rockenrooster said:
Peeing and Pooping are also natural body functions that we need to do to live, while not exactly the same category as breasfeeding, I think it should also be done as privately as possible.
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This argument is bad. Literally if you look at her chat during that incident, 9 year olds were completely sexualizing the entire thing. Twitch is a primary a game streaming platform, and a huge portion of their audience is children with dirty immature child minds.

Bowing to a few feminists on twitter is the norm in 2019.
 
Later in life this kid is gonna be like "why the fuck was I breastfeeding on camera while several thousand online strangers watched?"

When I watch Twitch it's only really to check out VODs from streamers playing the games I'm interested in, so I don't know if having little kids on camera is the norm. If people want to watch other people doing mundane regular everyday life shit then who am I to stop them, but live streaming little kids on Twitch strikes me as an all-around terrible idea.
 
Anything for profits. Live streaming into a public bathroom? Sure nbd guys. Breastfeeding? Sure nbd. Hey you gotta click the button for mature audiences only though, that surely keeps all of the too young crowd out.
 
Verge said:
This argument is bad. Literally if you look at her chat during that incident, 9 year olds were completely sexualizing the entire thing. Twitch is a primary a game streaming platform, and a huge portion of their audience is children with dirty immature child minds.

Bowing to a few feminists on twitter is the norm in 2019.
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If peeing on a tree get you put on a list, then the same should apply if females do not even try to do it discreetly. Keyword "try"
Equal rights right?
(I know that the vast majority of people wouldn't even think of livestreaming/seek out public places to breastfeed to offend people)
the voices of the 1% are the loudest of course
 
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Aix. said:
Later in life this kid is gonna be like "why the fuck was I breastfeeding on camera while several thousand online strangers watched?"

When I watch Twitch it's only really to check out VODs from streamers playing the games I'm interested in, so I don't know if having little kids on camera is the norm. If people want to watch other people doing mundane regular everyday life shit then who am I to stop them, but live streaming little kids on Twitch strikes me as an all-around terrible idea.
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It's funny if you know the history of Twitch. It actually started out as a general streaming service called justin.tv. Then they broke out the gaming category to it's own site which is Twitch.tv. Then justin.tv went out of business. Then twitch got bought by Amazon and now they are a gaming focused streaming site that also has general non-gaming streaming.

Will they hold off from going full circle?
 
No, i don't think it's stream material, she's just doing a publicity pun.
For the ones in favor, how to draw the line? Why stop there? Just allow sexual content and be done with it.
 
satanicoo said:
For the ones in favor, how to draw the line?
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As follows

> Is she breastfeeding in a bikini
> Is she feeding twins, one on each faucet
> Do the mams slay polar bears

If two out of three, no ban. Front page placement.
 
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Rockenrooster said:
If peeing on a tree get you put on a list, then the same should apply if females do not even try to do it discreetly. Keyword "try"
Equal rights right?
(I know that the vast majority of people wouldn't even think of livestreaming/seek out public places to breastfeed to offend people)
the voices of the 1% are the loudest of course
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I understand the arguement about quirting bodily fluids in public... i'm just stating that that wasn't really the argument here, and not the reason twitch deleted the clip.
 
Armenius said:
If you have watched anything on Twitch in the past 4 years then you'd know why.
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Not really, I watched some programming stream a few years ago -- but still I wouldn't watch that while at work.

Rockenrooster said:
Plenty of people get fired for watching NSFW crap at work, not sure what you're trying to get at.
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I guess personally I don't go pleasure browsing the interwebs while I am at work - especially not on a work machine. Maybe this has changed, but with Twitch primarily being "entertainment, it seems like just accessing Twitch at work is pretty much a fire-able offense already so I don't understand why NSFW/SFW matters.

<shrug>
 
schoolslave said:
Not really, I watched some programming stream a few years ago -- but still I wouldn't watch that while at work.



I guess personally I don't go pleasure browsing the interwebs while I am at work - especially not on a work machine. Maybe this has changed, but with Twitch primarily being "entertainment, it seems like just accessing Twitch at work is pretty much a fire-able offense already so I don't understand why NSFW/SFW matters.

<shrug>
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Understand your second point. What I am referring to in your first point is if you just randomly browse around channels on Twitch these days you may inadvertently run into a stream that would be considered NSFW for sexual content very easily. It used to be confined to the "Just Chatting," "Cooking," and "Creative" sections when they were added but now it's leaked over into everything because Twitch is apparently full of thirsty boys (and men!) who will toss boat loads of money at anything with tits. It's a way for sluts to be camgirls without the stigma and indignity attached to being a camgirl, or at least so they think.
 
Armenius said:
Understand your second point. What I am referring to in your first point is if you just randomly browse around channels on Twitch these days you may inadvertently run into a stream that would be considered NSFW for sexual content very easily. It used to be confined to the "Just Chatting," "Cooking," and "Creative" sections when they were added but now it's leaked over into everything because Twitch is apparently full of thirsty boys (and men!) who will toss boat loads of money at anything with tits. It's a way for sluts to be camgirls without the stigma and indignity attached to being a camgirl, or at least so they think.
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Gotcha, yeah I didn't know it's gotten that prevalent -- although I am not surprised unfortunately.
Twitch imo started off with a good premise -- interactive Let's Plays, but quickly veered off into cringey commercialization and excess.
 
if breastfeeding content is ever popular with men on the internet -> its because its sexual content.

take it down, beat the content creator in public, and shame all the incels in front of their family and employer. its the only way we can establish sustainable norms again.
 
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