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Discord's head of trust and safety said that the popular chat app was changing and clarifying its policies around grooming, teen dating and child sexualization.

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[–] Crudman@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Weeding the pedos out of Discord seems like an utterly sysiphean task

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As someone who's been fighting against pedos trying to use my services for a year now, I concur. Pedos ruin everything

[–] agitatedpotato@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Every time those bastards see a small opening they take it.

[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 8 points 1 year ago

Every time i see a story like this i just think.. What the fuck?

[–] CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Off to TeamSpeak they go...

[–] johnnyb@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

at least they get into self hosting/administering TS servers and learn something new I suppose

[–] doppelgangmember@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

"They're on to us, shut it down!!!"

[–] Jackolantern@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only now they did this after being investigated? Seems too little huh.

[–] GFGJewbacca@ag.batlord.org 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If no one was telling them it was broken, why fix it? That costs money, a cardinal sin against capitalism.

I don't expect the people running a company to have morals, because moral behavior is bad for business.

[–] Jackolantern@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Sad reality