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Shouldn't Discord be more under the limelight for the recent mass-shootings than 4chan?
by busterarm 4y ago
Shouldn't Discord be more under the limelight for the recent mass-shootings than 4chan?
- mlindner 4y agoHow about thinking that specific online discussion platforms are entirely irrelevant to the question at hand?
- foolfoolz 4y agoa broadcasting platform has much more appeal to mass shooters than any basic image board
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- busterarm 4y agoI mean, I was being sarcastic anyway and this article is lies and horseshit... I was just trying to take the author's thought process in the logical direction that it should have gone. Except I'm sure Discord's investors would be extremely unhappy with WIRED if they were to do so...whereas 4chan's investors are Japanese and outside of the SV bubble...so I guess fuck 'em?
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- lupire 4y agoWhy?
- busterarm 4y agoBuffalo shooting was planned on Discord and streamed on Twitch. There's also accusations that the Buffalo and Austin shooters were both members of the same discord server.
- reaperducer 4y agoThere was a shooting in Austin?
- busterarm 4y agoSorry, Uvalde.
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- krapp 4y agoIt's OK, it's hard to keep track of which mass shooting is which at this point. Maybe we should name them like hurricanes.
- reducesuffering 4y agoYa, what? Austin's shooting was soo 11 months ago. /s https://www.kxan.com/investigations/6th-street-mass-shooting-suspect-set-to-appear-in-court-tuesday/ https://www.kxan.com/investigations/6th-street-mass-shooting...
- jimmygrapes 4y agoI didn't know the FBI had a discord server! /s.... I hope
- dleslie 4y agoThe USA has so many mass shootings that I'm not sure which shootings you're referring to. The most important question Americans should be asking is why the USA is the only country in the G8 where this is normal.
- busterarm 4y agoThat's a separate topic. Please don't derail.
- chrisseaton 4y agoDiscord is a piece of software rather than a particular community like 4chan.
- andromeduck 4y ago4chan is no more a "particular community" than reddit or discord is.
- chrisseaton 4y ago4chan has its own style and memes and things, and is a group of people. People use Discord to run everything from their business to their e-sports team. Like criticising email it’s just a tool not a particular community.
- busterarm 4y ago4chan is several communities of people, just like reddit or discord but way smaller. Nobody reads all of 4chan. It's not a monoculture. People read one or two boards and that's it. The cultures of say, /k/ or /m/, are entirely unique to themselves and unlike any other board on 4chan.
- chrisseaton 4y agoAin’t nobody running for example their company office or research symposium on a 4chan board. That’s the difference that should be obvious to anyone.
- ratww 4y agoWell, Discord also has its own styles of memes and things. And 4chan is actually also made of multiple communities, like other people said. Reddit is probably a closer comparison, or maybe Facebook, with the difference that Discord requires an app and login and is not really "web". It's complicated. Sure, nobody is running their workplace chat on those, but it doesn't negate that Discord is sort of a Reddit-like aggregate of communities for many people.
- malwarebytess 4y agoNo because 4chan is heckin' problematic, ya'll.
- busterarm 4y agoAnd Discord isn't? Isn't this the same Discord whose own trust and safety team leadership were sharing "cub content"[1] on private servers? [1]: Cub content is the furry version of CP, for the uninitiated.
- ogurechny 4y agoIndecent photographs of little puppies?
- busterarm 4y agoNo, sexually explicit artwork depicting sex with puppies, kittens, etc. If you were to do the same thing with children it would be extremely illegal in any civilized country. Also this kind of imagery leads directly to animal sexual abuse, which is a huge but little-talked-about problem. It's despicable and has no place in our society.
- ogurechny 4y agoWhew, I'm so glad that I live in an extremely civilized country that already has an extremely zealous government agency that blocks whole websites for hosting anything like that, up to and including '90s Simpsons porn comics drawn in Paint (this is not a joke). It protects me and it protects my society. However, what you described does not seem to be a “furry version of child porn”.
- Gigachad 4y agoDiscord gets out of this by being more of a communication medium like email than a community like 4chan or twitter. You can use discord without ever seeing hateful material like you can use email. While 4chan does have different boards, they do have a fairly uniform community. Discord hosts hate content, but they don't publish it in the way other social media does. You have to seek out and join these communities.
- cowtools 4y ago>they do have a fairly uniform community. I strongly disagree with this. Although there is some minor overlap between the different boards or *chan sites, the community is hardly uniform. There's a huge difference between the likes of /pol/ and /lgbt/ or /o/ and /b/