{"id":1946,"date":"2022-05-09T17:03:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T17:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1946"},"modified":"2022-05-09T17:03:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T17:03:09","slug":"boycott-discord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/2022\/05\/09\/boycott-discord\/","title":{"rendered":"Boycott: Discord"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recently, I took part in a Discord server, hosted by a gamer I&#8217;d met online. Another user (by the name Samuksis) had posted some disturbing anti-Semitic content. I was disgusted by this and informed Discord. Discord did nothing and ignored my communications on the issue (via email and Twitter).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From my own experience and reading about Discord online, I have come to the conclusion that<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Discord does not adequately protect users from unsafe content (especially young\/vulnerable users)<\/li><li>Many Discord servers have toxic communities (although conversely many are friendly)<\/li><li>There are serious security and privacy concerns about the platform, which Discord refuses to acknowledge nor explain despite numerous requests<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">References<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">S. Kelly (Mar 2022) <strong>The dark side of Discord for teens<\/strong><br> <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2022\/03\/22\/tech\/discord-teens\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2022\/03\/22\/tech\/discord-teens\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">R. Srallman (n.d.) <strong>Reasons not to use the Discord communications system<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/stallman.org\/discord.html\">https:\/\/stallman.org\/discord.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I took part in a Discord server, hosted by a gamer I&#8217;d met online. Another user (by the name Samuksis) had posted some disturbing anti-Semitic content. I was disgusted by this and informed Discord. Discord did nothing and ignored my communications on the issue (via email and Twitter).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[79],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-1946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boycott-list","tag-boycott"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"james","author_link":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/author\/james\/"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89zH1-vo","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1947,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions\/1947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}