Discord acquires AI censorship company

63    14 Jul 2021 17:33 by u/Drewski

19 comments

21 u/None 14 Jul 2021 17:54
Kids need to get on Element/Matrix and stop installing corporate surveillance in their bedrooms.
4 u/3putt 14 Jul 2021 22:33
If only the barrier to entry was lower for this tech stack.
5 u/PRSXFENG 15 Jul 2021 00:54
Sadly that's how big companies win Most of the public don't care about the so called "privacy" and prefer to use what they're already using. I tried to get a Matrix going, we had a few members but the server has fallen off into deadness, with Discord still being the main go to.
1 u/3putt 15 Jul 2021 02:27
Most of the public cares about the illusion of "privacy" fed to them by the big tech companies.
12 u/Gray 14 Jul 2021 19:07
> Discord, which was in the past accused of allowing too much free expression on the platform, has over the past couple of years stepped up policing and removing unwanted content and users. I can't understand why people are like this, I don't get it. No one is forcing you to talk in every server you join or to get along with every user you meet. I can't understand why regular people would want every single app and website to be super squeaky clean when they always had the option to just block or avoid certain communities.
5 u/None 14 Jul 2021 23:31
"Too much free expression," as though that's a bad thing? How can a service provide "too much" free expression anyway? What does that even mean? As though expression is this weaselly, slippery thing that needs to be kept firmly wrestled down lest it escape and accidentally get people to think in a different way, god forbid. It's the normalization of censorship. They're making restriction of speech the norm and freedom of expression the outlier because their end goal is the abolishment of Freedom of Speech in the US and likely many other first world countries around the world. And once that's gone, anything is possible.
8 u/None 14 Jul 2021 17:45
Most communities I'm in have a telegram and matrix version now. Discord is on the way out.
14 u/kek 14 Jul 2021 18:09
>Discord is on the way out. Discord isn't going anywhere. For 99.9% of people, it's a superb, viable product.
8 u/RetardedPotato 14 Jul 2021 18:51
Yes most people don't care about privacy at all. Only if we somehow got a politician that said they'd ban all data mining or something of the like would people maaybe say, sure do it for us big daddy! Then facebook would stop working and they'd start rioting.
6 u/None 14 Jul 2021 18:55
Except when you message your friend with a video of someone getting hurt from a vaccine and it's auto deleted.
4 u/None 14 Jul 2021 19:15
That's server prerogative. I've never seen any censorship on any place I've been on discord and I have no qualms about saying offensive shit.
1 u/WatchingSocietyBurn 14 Jul 2021 19:20
Until it's used against you in the court of ((law))
1 u/None 14 Jul 2021 19:21
No laws against it yet! We just need to make sure it stays that way.
1 u/NWOBHM 14 Jul 2021 20:44
They don't really seem to share the values of the people that come to Ruqqus.
1 u/Hadzabadza 15 Jul 2021 11:35
Of course you would say that
2 u/Hubert 14 Jul 2021 18:20
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2 u/Nerd_516 14 Jul 2021 19:39
I will prob get judged for this but I like guilded
1 u/kek 15 Jul 2021 02:25
They're more geared towards e-sports
1 u/Nerd_516 25 Jul 2021 23:30
and discord also was focused on gaming and look where it is now