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Twitch: Gaming Needs to ‘Invest’ to Tackle Sexism

posted by martyb on Sunday October 02 2016, @09:33PM   
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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• Re:"invest" Re:"invest" (Score: 4, Interesting) by mojo chan on Monday October 03 2016, @08:24AM

  by mojo chan (266) on Monday October 03 2016, @08:24AM (#409307)

  It's an investment, they are trying to avoid becoming like Reddit or Twitter and getting a reputation for being nasty places that children and people at work should not go, and where being female is likely to get you some abuse. If that happens people will start to migrate to other services.

  Of course there will be screw-ups along the way, but Twitch isn't a 4chan style free speech platform, and even 4chan had to ban the worst abuse. They always had a ToS, it just wasn't very good or well enforced.

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• Re:"invest" (Score: 1) by khallow on Monday October 03 2016, @06:36PM

  by khallow (3766) on Monday October 03 2016, @06:36PM (#409562) Journal

  So Twitch could just enforce their ToS? Doesn't sound like much of a need for investment.

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