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Discord says piracy subpoena would violate users’ First Amendment rights (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Discord defends itself against efforts to stop piracy on its platform by saying no to more invasive data collection. Even though Discord isn’t exactly known for privacy, this is a great move for its users. What are your thoughts?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Discord still sells your information for advertising so it's meaningless posturing.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Not meaningless but certainly undercuts the grandstanding.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Yes, the authorities will have to pay for data like everyone else.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 minutes ago* (last edited 7 minutes ago)

And that's job creation right there!

Thanks to Discord, I'm able to keep merchants that "connect overbearing authoritarian entities with the data they shouldn't have, at a price point we all can agree on" at stable, sub-full time employment status.

Truly, pillar of the economy, er community.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

I know the feeling. Similar thing happened in a discord I'm in. Rate limit ban on a leader account, no response from support even via burner, then jumped ship to a new one that could actually be managed.

At least discord has to foot the storage costs of a dead server pestered with bots because of their own incompetence.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I had a server with a respectable size.
Did a hard cutoff due to some stupid discord thing.
I managed to get a total of 50 people of about 3k to switch and out of those like 7 actually stayed.

Yet I had to get a burner account again to get in touch with certain people.

Its all be man.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Switch to what?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

for the 7 that actually stuck, it was matrix for a while

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Sad am forced on this app, I love matrix more.

[–] [email protected] 193 points 23 hours ago (25 children)

If they did not collect any information, they would not have any information to give when they are served a subpoena.

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