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Comment by s5300 | Hacker News Reader

Yeah this was a low blow from Discord

I get they're probably scared as hell, but they don't even take care of the child porn or child grooming Discords.

It's not even slightly paranoid to say that somebody gave financial incentive to make this happen, but for them to censor with absolute bullshit reasoning behind it... This is just not good.

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Are you saying Discord openly permits groups that share child porn? Or discusss how to find it? I could understand the latter if the discord itself has nothing illegal but that’s still pretty shocking.

I know for a fact that it happens. Certainly they would stop it if they knew about it, but they don’t police this stuff like you might think. They rely on their users to self-report for the most part. [1]

“ On April 23, 2020 at 1:55 p.m., the Marysville Police received a tip that child pornography had been uploaded while using a discord online service.”

There are groups like this all over the place. I know who this person is.

“A discord online service” is Discord.

Also kind of interesting in writing here you can see some local papers are just way out of touch with the tech community.

[1] https://www.unioncountydailydigital.com/articles/child-porno...

There is probably no public service on the web that someone _hasn't_ tried to upload illegal content to.

Don't services that accept large amounts of user-generated content scan for illegal stuff against a database of known material? I find it odd that Discord wouldn't do that.

> I get they're probably scared as hell,

I don't, what should they be scared of?

It's been said that some Discord investors are also investors with Steve Cohen's Point72. The fund targeted by WSB, Melvin Capital, managed $1bn for Points72

This is a textbook example of a conspiracy theory.

A media spotlight isn't helpful when they are considered (rightly or wrongly) to be responsible for a lot of people losing money

Big money players. Some may even be holding Discord equity and could give them a headache

Beyond them possibly being directly or indirectly involved on the (currently) losing end of GameStop stock, they may be worried about SEC paying attention to them. I personally think they're in the clear here, but maybe they aren't so sure.

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