Szabla agrees, saying, “With bans on NSFW I often see a lot of queer art, and queer folks who are trying to view or create this work in order to better connect with their own genders and identities, getting hit the hardest and losing business and income because of these overreaching decisions by tech companies.” “This is a huge blow to many marginalized communities, particularly queer, trans, sex worker, and kink/adult play spaces that rely on Discord for community and communication,” says writer Ana Valens, who has reported on Discord’s previous efforts to curb NSFW content.
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In addition to furries, other stigmatized groups use Discord as a platform for NSFW content. For starters, as many adult content creators noted, Discord’s change in policy regarding NSFW content is part of a larger trend of major social media platforms cracking down on NSFW content, most notably Tumblr, which served as a bastion of erotica for years before the website unceremoniously banned it.Įvery Awful Thing Trump Has Promised to Do in a Second Term The update, though small and largely unheralded save for a few cursory posts on tech blogs, was notable for a few reasons. We always work hard to create robust controls to help ensure minors are not exposed to content that is inappropriate for them,” the spokesperson said of the decision. “We are committed to ensuring a safer experience for everyone on Discord. It will still be possible for Discord users to access NSFW servers on its desktop version, and on Android. The update went on to state that entire servers, as opposed to individual channels, are required to be designated NSFW if the community “is organized around NSFW content or whose content is predominantly 18+,” a spokesperson for Discord told Rolling Stone. I also moderate for art servers that are definitely nsfw - they are listed as 18+ by the people who started them - so I'm in the same boat.On Tuesday, the gaming chat platform Discord quietly updated its guidelines to restrict adult content, issuing a ban on users accessing NSFW servers (essentially, chatrooms with multiple channels) on iOS devices. Will I just be booted from the servers because of that? Not to mention a good handful of the art servers I'm in have nsfw channels. Like, I'm an artist, that sometimes draws pinups and nsfw based art, and while I can share it on my desktop, there are times where I will save the art, or wips, to my phone to post to other servers, and now, I won't be able to do anything.
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I can just see the Discord nitros dropping like flies because suddenly people can't see either half the channels they were in, or they get booted from the servers they're in all because it might have a nsfw channel because they happen to be using an iOS phone or tablet. What went through the heads of the people talking about this to decide that they were just going to exclude like half of their active users all because they use iOS and not another form of mobile software? I honestly wish to know the reason why that would even be a decision in the first place. Came on here to check if anyone had mentioned this and I am in full agreement that this is ENTIRELY unfair to anyone 18+ who uses iOS.