On April 26th, Discord began rolling out their new Terms Of Service, and community guidelines. The changes include allowing NSFW content, as long as the channel is flagged as NSFW, and a new report button.

As always, with changes like this, there’s always the small, but vocal minority are annoyed, with some requesting nitro refunds. Now, to say the vocal minority are pissed, is well, an understatement. Discord, have in fact allowed more content, such as NSFW content, on their services, not even taking things away.

This comment prompted me to write this; it’s being shared and completely taking things out of proportion, if we’re all honest with each other. Sure, games like GTA, and war games have “gore and violence”, but I’m pretty sure that guideline is referring to actual gore and violence. Not that of a cartoon, or fictional variety. The next comment about not infringing copyright laws is fair. You’d agree with discord on that one right? They do need to cover their ass legally, so that’s a fair rule. This “redditor” then proceeds to state that game recordings is illegal. :waitwhat: So if he knows the copyright laws so well, why don’t youtube and twitch get sued for sharing copyrighted material? I’m done reading this comment, since he thinks you can break the law.

Some people think that this is the end of “free speech” on discord. Well, the only changes that could affect “free speech”, is banning porn throughout servers where the channels are not explicitly marked as NSFW. Go figure.

Some people also noticed this:

“ By uploading, distributing, transmitting or otherwise using Your Data with the Services, you grant to us a nonexclusive, transferable, royalty-free, sublicensable, and worldwide license to use Your Data, subject to the Company’s Privacy Policy”

In the new ToS. This has always been present in the privacy policy, and the reason would be A) So your images can be hosted on the CDN, and B) because your voice is actually part of “Your Data”, and it goes through discord’s servers first.