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Re:Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of... by ep4d4s on Friday July 03, 2015 @03:40AM (#9824108)
The music detection stuff I feel was probably bigger than them. DMCA and whatnot. You forget YouTube follows suite in this regard.

Not keeping videos forever honestly made sense to me. They were very scientific about it in their blog post and showed that honestly, nobody is really watching these archives. If at most they're there to watch a certain clip (which can be highlighted which ARE kept forever).

Banning cleavages again makes sense... Otherwise the site would turn into a softcore cam site with gamers.

I'm not saying you're wrong; Twitch can certainly go down that route, but most of your examples are in my opinion exaggerated.

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Re:Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of... by rjaco31 on Friday July 03, 2015 @05:43AM (#9824516)
> Banning cleavages again makes sense... Otherwise the site would turn into a softcore cam site with gamers.

Wait what? I've never seen or heard of anything remotely close to "softcore cam" on Twitch, I find it extremely stupid and rather discriminatory to ban cleavage for female gamers. It's a very bad omen for further possible restrictions imho.

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Re:Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of... by Crito on Friday July 03, 2015 @02:13PM (#9827066)
I've seen softcore pornographic material from twitch. Women flashing their breasts or ass at the webcam.

Granted, that sort of thing apparently is uncommon because the people who did it were apparently almost immediately banned... but that's rather the point, isn't it? You don't see it because they ban it.

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Re:Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of... by Frozenlock on Friday July 03, 2015 @04:21AM (#9824267)
How are they exaggerated? Some of these can be 'good', but they still are all unilateral changes, which is precisely the problem with the false sentiment of community.
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