Twitch has appointed streamers and scholars to a new safety council

Twitch has learned the hard way that if there's a possible loophole in a platform policy, the people who use that platform will eventually find it - and it's caused Twitch a number of prominent headaches over the past few years. Effective policymaking, it turns out, can be pretty hard to do, and so Twitch has dipped into its own pool of talent - its big-name creators - to help shape its safety policies going forward. Together with some hand-picked experts, several prominent Twitch streamers have been chosen to form an advisory council focused on health and safety. The new Twitch Safety Advisory Council, as our sister site The Loadout reports, includes Ben 'CohhCarnage' Cassell, Cupahnoodle, FerociouslySteph, and Zizaran on the streamer side. They're joined by Alex Holmes, the deputy CEO of The Diana Award; Center for Democracy and Technology director Emma Llanso; Dr. Sameer Hinduja, co-director of the Cyberbully Research Centre; and AnyKey research director T.L. Taylor. Together, the council represents a lot of experience in both studying and implementing policies like chat moderation in an online milieu that doesn't have a simple off-the-shelf solution for rules - and streaming is a medium that's always changing rapidly.
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