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A private company has the right to choose where its traffic comes from, nothing surprising here. There are legitimate reasons to block TOR traffic, and even if
by ricardbejarano 7y ago
A private company has the right to choose where its traffic comes from, nothing surprising here.
There are legitimate reasons to block TOR traffic, and even if there where none, they'd still have the right to block anyone of their users.
There are plenty of alternatives, simply remember not to choose one ran by a private company again.
- wowaname 7y agoLuckily I never had all my eggs in Discord's basket, and thankfully so. I will remember this, and I know they are welcome to discriminate against Tor or any other traffic, but that just means they opt for lazy solutions and don't care about false positives. I host websites and online services (at a much smaller scale than Discord, at that) and I know how people use Tor to abuse services. But, I also know that there's a comparable number of incidents coming from traditional ISPs, hosting ranges, dynamic home IP addresses, public proxies... you name it. This is extremely apparent in the form of E-mail SPAM. I just believe that placing bans or flags on IP addresses is not the answer, and I will work on my own software and services with this ideology in mind. Ironically, Discord did have what I believe to be a stellar answer to guild moderation: invite links. They allowed a whitelisting model for private guilds, as well as varied forms of controlled access for more-public guilds. I'd like to see this kind of control everywhere.