Completely unrelated issue, if you took a second to read the article.
how long will it be unrelated?
are you defending the cub community
I am not, I am just saying that they are being investigated for other things.
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We knew it was going to happen.
It was a matter of when?
But with ballooning wealth and size comes trouble. In the last two years Discord has become a chaotic space, where innocent gamers' voices have increasingly intermingled with those of shady criminals, child groomers, hate-mongers and, most notoriously, white supremacists.
Is it ever possible to avoid these guys as a community platform?
Cub community? Can someone explain to someone who just uses Discord privately with a couple people? I'm assuming some kind of separate channel on Discord younger users with a sordid history of nefariousness?
Discord’s lax policy on furry ‘cub content’ leads to user outcry
Sorta, yes. You can avoid most liability by making it neither possible to know what users do nor easy to moderate it. (See WhatsApp.)
You'll still have to ban people if made aware of it through other channels, though.
I regret everything.
I'm sure you can combine the concept of young animals with furries to get the picture pretty clearly. I believe in you!
Not a surprise at all. There are pedophile networks on Discord which get slaps on the wrist when reported. I really, really hope that they've at least been giving the info on them to the police.
That's part of what the FBI investigation will uncover, I hope. If they have, that's good, if they have not and have just been ignoring it, not so good.
TBH reading the article there's really no way for this to stop without being even more privacy invasive.
The ability to quickly set up servers, use permission granularity to gate access, and the semi-anonyminity of the platform, combined with the various useful features it has, there's really no way to prevent people for using the platform for nefarious means without either cutting back on features or scanning users posts automatically there's no feasible way to prevent people from making servers with illegal content.
Like the article states, the key features of Discord make it useful for gamers and nefarious people alike, and if it's not Discord then it'll be IRC or some other chat program.
pedos + furries
Not without strict as shit moderation, anywhere people can discuss things "in private" will lead to people privately discussing terrible things.
i mean there's a point where if you're providing a service, you shouldn't be culpable.
Phone companies aren't responsible for criminals commnicating, why should chat apps be responsible for the same?
Credit where it's due: discord has tried a lot harder than most. Plenty of the neo-nazi shit that'll get you to the front page of YouTube or the top of reddit will get you banned from discord.
https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/1092469779137482755
long thread
Yes; by policing and following the TOS set forward to the letter. It pains me watching all these places having a TOS and then lacking enforcement.
god, we need to drop discord like a rock.
There's a popular bot used in who knows how many servers, and you can get it to autoban just about anyone by reporting the user with the reason "he said fuck furries"
Phone companies shouldn't be publicly distributing the messages contained after they are executed, much less on their own servers.
It's less communication and more back-alley dealing for these evil deeds, in that regard.
I love Discord as a platform, but it's become more than clear that they need to step up their game and be an actual company for once.
This cutesy meme-y anything goes behavior was more acceptable when Discord was still small and growing up. Now, they need to step their shit up and stop letting this shit get by.
Of course, I do realize the logistical difficulty to even stop this all in the first place. Discord itself isn't exactly the most privacy friendly application, and to actively stop this sort of stuff from having a place on the platform, it would have to probably do things that would probably break GDPR over in Europe. So while Discord does need to change their overall stance and actually enforce their own ToS, I don't see them ever being able to fully shut down these groups without limiting server creation to official servers only.
On a sort of related note, how does Reddit battle parties like this? Like how anyone can make a Discord server, anyone can make a subreddit for these sorts of things. Maybe Discord could take a page from Reddit in this regard.
Holy shit, I didn't realize Discord was worth 2 friggin billion by now. I remember when I was one of the first couple thousand who was using to talk about Half life leaks with some of the folks of the Half Life subreddit.
This is a pretty good case in point about what I said earlier, the alt-right are chomping at the bit to get Discord shut down now that they're in potential legal trouble because Discord has not been as kind to them as other social platforms.
2 billion but has no money to hire profesional support instead of furfriends from their furaffinity days
The solution is simple.
Make me a Discord moderator.
No more cub, and I'll be fired in three weeks so now they look even worse.
Well, for one, to visit a subreddit you don't really need to be a reddit member. Anyone can view your subreddit and report it if they find something questionable going on. For Discord servers, you have to have a Discord account, an invite link, and for some servers there is no publicly available link, you have to be personally invited.
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