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Comment by shevy-java

4 months ago

I am not convinced.

Teter Piel (don't want to use the other name) kind of purchased a LOT of influence power via lobbyists. One lobbyist is Sebastian Lurz (also not going to use the real name here; the letter "l" is an in-country humourous take on Lüssel, Lasser and so forth - ex-politicians). The superrich buy influence and worsen the situation for the rest of us. This has to stop. The USA is currently under direct control of them - this also has to stop. I do not buy into Discord's attempt here though - they 100% knew what they were doing. The only reason they respond in this way is because they alienated and scared their user base with their idea to sniff-invade everyone. It was never about protecting kids in the first place - it was to spy.

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rogerrogerr  4 months ago

This refusal to use people’s names comes across as childish and distracts from your intended point.

  • ibejoeb  4 months ago

    And it diminishes search accuracy. You can publish a reasonable criticism, but if people don't see it, you're not changing minds.

  • amingilani  4 months ago

    To me it feels pragmatic.

    I find it more concerning that mass surveillance has come to the point where someone can’t safely express their frankly-not-that-controversial opinions without obfuscating the subject’s name.

    • rogerrogerr  4 months ago

      So you think that the state has massive surveillance systems (definitely) that it is willing to use maliciously (maybe), but in the age of LLMs is fooled by swapping some letters around? Seems like the threat model is unlikely to line up with reality.

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    • mikestorrent  4 months ago

      I'm happy to name Peter Thiel in a comment here. What's he going to do, come and drip forehead sweat at me?

    • edgyquant  4 months ago

      It hasn’t come to that though, you can freely express that persons point with no repercussions outside of maybe not getting a check one day from the person you hate

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thefz  4 months ago

The problem with Discord is their upcoming IPO, and reconciling the fact that their only valuable asset is their userbase - and their billions of messages - with a way to sell this asset and make it valuable to the investors in some way.