{"id":62268,"date":"2025-01-28T19:28:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T19:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/twitch-clarifies-simp-and-virgin-ban-after-streamer-outrage-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T19:28:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T19:28:16","slug":"twitch-clarifies-simp-and-virgin-ban-after-streamer-outrage-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/twitch-clarifies-simp-and-virgin-ban-after-streamer-outrage-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitch clarifies \u2018simp\u2019 and \u2018virgin\u2019 ban after streamer outrage &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitch clarifies \u2018simp\u2019 and \u2018virgin\u2019 ban after streamer outrage Unsplash\/Caspar Rubin\/TwitchTwitch\u2019s new harassment rules have come under fire for banning words such as \u201csimp,\u201d \u201cvirgin,\u201d and \u201cincel.\u201d However, the Amazon-owned company has clarified the terms aren\u2019t being \u2018blanket banned,\u2019 and context will be taken into consideration. Twitch came under fire on December 16 for introducing new changes to their \u201cHateful Conduct\u201d policy that banned streamers and viewers from using words like \u201csimp,\u201d \u201cincel,\u201d and \u201cvirgin.\u201d The change in policy, which is set to be enacted on January 22, 2021, will apply both to chat and conduct on the screen. They are not the only words Twitch are cracking down on, with the Amazon-owned company looking towards all \u201csexually-focused terms\u201d used \u201cnegatively.\u201d Under Twitch&#8217;s new policy, words like &#8220;&#8221;simp&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitch clarifies \u2018simp\u2019 and \u2018virgin\u2019 ban after streamer outrage Unsplash\/Caspar Rubin\/TwitchTwitch\u2019s new harassment rules have come under fire for banning words such as \u201csimp,\u201d \u201cvirgin,\u201d and \u201cincel.\u201d However, the Amazon-owned company has clarified the terms aren\u2019t being \u2018blanket banned,\u2019 and context will be taken into consideration. Twitch came under fire on December 16 for introducing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}