At least with a phone book you were able to opt out of your information being included in it. As of right now, there's no way to opt out of Discord. Anonymity

At least with a phone book you were able to opt out of your information being included in it. As of right now, there's no way to opt out of Discord. Anonymity on the internet protects a lot of us from state actors, governments, and fringe extremist groups. We're already losing that anonymity with many state laws (submitting IDs to view adult content is one of those). Imagine if the President had a list of every person worldwide who said anything bad about him. Name, number, gender, age, address, list of friends on every network, etc. Having to deal with trolls and harassers that can be blocked or removed from the platform for gross violations is a much better option than everyone in the world being able to find out who I am, who my family is, who my friends are, etc.