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Why we should take Twitch chat seriously? Part 2 - the hidden politics of livestreaming

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August 25, 2025

In Part 1, we looked at how livestream chats are more than scrolling text—they’re co-created spaces where people and technology work together to produce culture, emotion, and connection. But what are the policy implications?

- By YANRO JUDD C. FERRER

Situations where technologies fail give us a first glance at how design decisions can shape social relationships online: Auto-moderators blocking harmless messages due to misconfigured filters, emojis or GIFs not loading on older devices, or unstable internet connections. These could exclude people not just from the joke or conversation, but from the community altogether. What looks like a technical glitch is actually a social one. It changes who gets to speak, what gets noticed, and how belonging is defined.

The problems can get even bigger. Chatters can flood the chatbox with harassment by bypassing filters faster than moderators can respond. The same tools that usually keep things playful—emojis, alerts, chatbots—can just as easily magnify chaos. The speed of moderation relies on automated systems coupled with human decisions. But human discernment moves at a much slower pace.

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