totally normal behavior for an organization /j
this post was submitted on 30 May 2024
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Kind of seems that way lately.
If safety is in the way of a slight increase in profit and there are no expensive legal consequences, safety has to go. And companies like X are testing how far you can go without consequences.
There are consequences for X. Advertisers are pulling out and it's becoming increasingly unpalatable for companies and people to use, and so its user base is not exactly growing rapidly (although I have no evidence to say it is shrinking).
They're going to replace them with an AI powered tool, aren't they? If they're going to replace them at all that is.
They've done that already. I've actually gotten banned twice because their AI tool thought I was harassing a streamer. Both reversed almost immediately after an appeal. Guess those appeals may no longer have people responding to them...
Just appeal to another AI - two of them can't be wrong at the same time, I'm sure of it!
Important: The article mentions that they are being replaced not that the SAC is being done away with completely.
On the other hand:
Twitch declined to comment on whether the [new council members] would be paid.
The text I replaced there is "ambassadors", that is, Twitch ambassadors, people given a title that means nothing outside of Twitch, but is the only payment these people will be getting, outside, perhaps, a sense of pride and accomplishment.
Haven't seen that meme in a while lol kudos
[Sarcasm] See, they really do care about us! They care so much they're unhiring everyone whose job it was to pretend they care about us! Twitch is a great company and not an evil ball of shit! I respect Amazon and its owned companies and subsidiaries and whatnot because I know they respect me!
The joke about corporations realizing they can stop doing "diversity hires" really is true isn't it? They can do whatever they want, their giant team of lawyers will protect the bottom line no matter what.
if I know anything about advisory councils in tech it was pure optics and letting them all go will have absolutely zero impact on the normal flow of business beside the current bad press.
I would love to know if they ever affected company policy even slightly.
This is correct. Some of them were straight up just twitch mods/partners being paid "$10,000 and $20,000 per 12-month period". So why not just convert to all twitch ambassadors and not pay them since they will do it for free.
https://safety.twitch.tv/s/article/Safety-Advisory-Council?language=en_US
protecting the interests of marginalized groups
What does this even mean? Unless not caring hurts their bottom line, why should Twitch care?
I guess it was a PR problem with the "me too" and "black lives matter" movements going around. But since trump and the republican party are openly being sexist racist bigots, there's no need to pretend to care.
It doesn’t. For a little while they had that group in place as they watched the business landscape in case they got sued. Now their legal team has advised that it’s no longer necessary, and they will save money by cutting it
Hm, glad I was informed that my Twitch account was deleted a week ago.