Pokimane Wants a Kid-Friendly Twitch: The internet is a place where children can access information mainly unsupervised has always associate with dangers.
Different tools and sub-sections of websites have developed methods to prevent inappropriate content viewed by kids. Pokimane believes that it’s about time Twitch is doing the similar.
Twitch streaming platforms focus on various topics. Such as streaming games with fans giving viewers a peek into people’s lives or travels through the form of an IRL stream.
However, regardless of whether it’s gaming-related or not. Most of the content streamed not designed to view by children. Yet, there’s no practical way to prevent the content from watched by children.
Twitch streamer Pokimane, the subject of recent hate attacks. Expressed her worries concerning children’s content on the platform during an earlier stream.
According to Pokimane’s account, these hate attacks have been attended mainly by children who, according to her, regurgitate all the time’ and don’t have any idea what’s going on.’
To combat this type of behaviour and to ensure that children are safe to stream content that is suitable for their age, Pokimane believes that it’s time to create a children’s version of Twitch or, at the very least, remove dangerous streams.
Many people would probably support Pokimane’s views, considering that NSFW content has gotten more popular through the site.
Pokimane Wants a Kid-Friendly Twitch
Some believe that it’s up to those who are the guardians or parents of children to decide what’s safe and not safe for their children to see and interact with.
However, other tools may help in addressing this issue. With the capability to efficiently switch between channels on Twitch. There’s no straightforward way for kids to watch safe content while preventing what’s not.
It’s not the first time streaming platforms have implemented this filtering feature. YouTube offers its streamer, and is probably Twitch’s most prominent rival. Also has its version of YouTube Kids that helps block undesirable content.
It’s not 100% secure, and certain awful things have uploaded to YouTube Kids at times.
However, it blocks lots of content available within the main version of YouTube.
In the end, Twitch streamers get blocked frequently for violating the rules of Twitch.
Making the company decide whether or not to remove all streams in the proposed Twitch Kids version is an ideal way to begin.
However even streamers who were approved might make a decision unexpectedly that not a good idea for children. And Twitch could only react in the aftermath.
Filters or rules can’t ensure the safety of children’s viewing, but it’s not as effective as blocking the channel from Twitch completely.
However, a carefully curated list of channels or a kid-specific filter can. At the very least, block the most offensive content.