Bloomberg published Investigation Scheduled to be discussed, which relates to the big problems of Child sexual abuse This is the plague Twitchwhich Amazon does practically nothing tangible.
Newspaper Reporters Analysis Thousands of accounts who systematically link to live broadcasts of children or pre-teens. There are more than 279,000 accounts, a magnitude that makes the phenomenon well sized.
Twitch does not ban broadcasts to teenagers, and often, also to children, who stream to the platform every day by doing all kinds of live shows. Thus a real one was formed child sexual exploitation network He constantly identifies, categorizes and follows very young streamers, using chat to push them to communicate off the platform and show their homes, with details that could allow them to be identified.
They manipulate eight-year-olds sometimes, threaten and even blackmail them. Bloomberg found that this happens on a regular basis and that you don’t even have to try very hard to find them.
As mentioned earlier, the main problem is that Twitch does nothing to counter this phenomenon, and in fact, to maximize profits, it does not offer the standard forms of control on other social platforms such as YouTube-Live, TikTok-Live and Facebook-Gaming. For example, it does not require an account with a minimum number of followers to live directly from mobile devices, a rule expressly designed to avoid certain situations. Unlike YouTube, anyone on Twitch can create a profile new account (Often even skip the email or phone check) and start streaming. Youngsters know this and take advantage of it all the time, bypassing bans and other completely ineffective measures.
Moreover, according to the investigation, Twitch has not developed a trust and safety section suitable for the platform’s exponential growth in recent years, with the system prioritizing group reports and not checking individual reports, even if they are related to keywords such as “pre-teens”, “kids” or Like. The result is that predatory acts towards minors happen so much every day that there is no way to attract the attention of moderation using the tools that Twitch provides.
Bloomberg specifically tells what happened during the live broadcast: it was the end of May and a viewer asked the minor to take off her underwear. She refused, saying she wouldn’t because they had already suspended one of her three accounts. The viewer, who turns out to be mainly following girls on Twitch, replied that even if he was, he could easily get an account back. Later, the little girl lifted her shirt.
In short, the situation is really serious and as usual Twitch seems lazy to certain issues, doing nothing against them until public complaints and official protests arrive.
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