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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: 1) by khallow on Monday October 03 2016, @06:40PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday October 03 2016, @06:40PM (#409566) Journal
    Only if women are part of your market. If they aren't, then it doesn't. My view is that the best of both worlds is the SFW sites for the people who want their bubble world (with an aggressive terms of service to weed out the problems) and the NSFW sites for the people who want that bubble world (with far more relaxed terms of service) is going to be the best bet in the long term. Sexists (and other social undesirables) should be able to game too without this sort of nonsense.