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Do you rate it on the same level as showing games where people are shot, stabbed, torn apart? Cuz that's a much larger part of their content base.
If it was a game that encouraged going Columbine shooter, no, I'd rate it even worse. But because they are fictional universes, either they just involve the unequivocal bad guys or they are on an arc that has the undertone of exploring the morality of war, the shooting, stabbing, and tearing apart I can dismiss, because while there is a danger to desensitizing the reaction of the visuals of said violence, it does not desensitize the moral qualms people should have about committing those acts.
Sex is to sell sex, and should be kept in adult only stores just like it is in real life. There's no problem with those sex stores existing, there is a problem in dismissing that underage exposure to porn and hardcore porn to the point where using ai fakes in school is becoming a problem.
Sounds like unsupervised internet access is the problem to me.
It's much easier to supervise if you don't have to limit individually by each site's implementation of child control mechanics and can make some gross assumptions about worst case exposure and how bad it can get if they accidentally click the wrong link due to momentary inattentiveness. The adult version is all the work that the admins and moderators due to keep lemmy free from gore/sexually explicit/even worse bullshit spam in NSFW, why suddenly ignore it for some categories of porn, and potentially directed at children no less?
We can end this discussion and just accept that Twitch should begin to identify itself as an adult only streaming platform, if you want. I don't know if that's fair to streamers who struggle to make family friend NSFW content, but the access to porn they can already find on services that explicitly identify themselves as adult only seems to be important enough for people.
Then end it. It's been clear that twitch isn't appropriate for unsupervised children from the jump.
Then we are in agreement. Unfortunately, raising its 13+ year old requirement to adult only is really only up to Twitch.
Children don't listen to age requirements on sites anyway. It's up to parents to monitor what they're doing online.