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Twitch: Gaming Needs to ‘Invest’ to Tackle Sexism

posted by martyb on Sunday October 02 2016, @09:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the we-need-more-hermaphrodites dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Twitch boss Matthew DiPietro is clear that the industry needs to do more about online sexism in gaming.

The senior executive was speaking to us from the streaming site's headquarters in San Francisco.

Gamers have told Newsbeat about their experiences and Twitch says it's doing all it can to stamp out sexism on the platform.

But Matthew tells us this isn't a problem that Twitch can solve on its own.

He says the industry needs to invest money to "move forward on this issue".

He's calling for "investment in terms of people, education and money.

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  • (Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 02 2016, @11:57PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 02 2016, @11:57PM (#409184)

    What is online sexism? Are male data packets faster and stronger than female data packets? Are a woman's hands not suited to using a keyboard and mouse? Is the GUI color scheme offensive to a woman's eyes? I just can't figure out how a person's sex is relevant on the internet.

    Or maybe sex has nothing to do with it, and all we have here is a group of whiners who feel entitled to impose limits on everyone else's speech.

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