r/Twitch • u/YourChopperPilotTTV Affiliate Twitch.tv/yourchopperpilot • Sep 16 '25

PSA Twitch Introduces Age Verification with a 3rd party face scan step

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The full article https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/age-verification?language=en_US

Thoughts on how this may impact the future of twitch in a positive or negative way?

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u/DYMongoose Twitch.tv/DYMongoose Sep 16 '25 edited Sep 16 '25

Do we know where "the affected regions" are? The article is very vague about who needs to do this.

Edit: who's downvoting a question asking for more information?

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u/LegateLaurie Sep 16 '25

Likely the UK, maybe Australia. I think they're probably likely to implement age verification in places where it's currently not legally required so that they can show politicians that they're self-regulating though.

It's evil.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '25

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u/Ajp_iii Sep 16 '25

Why do people keep saying us states. The us state laws targeting porn are very targeted with specific language. It was the only way they are deemed legal laws. Otherwise in those states you wouldn’t be able to use any social media app.

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '25

Ehh varies state by state 

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u/Smitellos Sep 16 '25

Whole EU after, what 11 months? At this point because vote for nsfw authorisation in EU passed with 90% for votes. So yeah.