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Sure. Discord is a magnet for child sex abuse and money scams. The end.
by oglop 2y ago
Sure. Discord is a magnet for child sex abuse and money scams. The end.
- StefanBatory 2y agoI can say the same about FB, Messenger, Reddit, WhatsApp, (...) HackerNews, mails, letters, conversations. The end.
- squigz 2y agoWhat is it about Discord that makes it more of a magnet than any other large Internet platform?
- consumer451 2y agoFrom what I have seen, it is Discord's closed nature, their decision not to police their own communities very much, combined with the fact that it's a great product. edit after 1 upvote: I should add that I believe that Discord has an immense amount of moderation-debt. Due to its closed nature, there aren't external eyeballs on the communities so things can really fester. At some point, that can boil-over into IRL, like they appear to have just done in Turkey.
- squigz 2y agoI don't want Discord "policing" my community, nor do I want "external eyeballs" on it. In any case, this is not specific to Discord at all, which was my original question.
- consumer451 2y agoPolicing was the wrong term to use, I was too late to edit it. What I meant was moderation. And they do moderate, whether you like it or not. CSAM, conspiracy to murder, and terrorism are beyond the pale for nearly everybody. All of those things require moderation if a company wants to stay in business.
- squigz 2y agoYup, and those are the things I want them to moderate (and they do, about as well as any large tech company does)
- johngladtj 2y agoThat's just censorship by another name. No thanks.
- squigz 2y agoTaking action against people/servers sharing actual child pornography is literally censorship, huh?
- filoleg 2y agoWell, that sounds… good? They don’t meddle in the communities unless child abuse and other straight up no-doubt illegal content is involved, in which case they do. Feels like a less centralized reddit, which sounds like something for which there definitely exists a decently large market.