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Discord Now Explicitly Bans Misgendering and Deadnaming Transgender People on the Platform (www.advocate.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Discord has expanded its Hateful Conduct Policy to explicitly include prohibitions against misgendering and deadnaming in a policy update. Accompanying this policy update, Discord has also implemented a comprehensive warning system to enforce these guidelines effectively.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Regardless of the first amendment rights or US law, centralised unfree communication silos do govern more information than government.

The claim that private corporations shouldn't be subjected to the same ethical scrutiny (i.e: freedom of speech) as governments is invalidated once only very few people are exposed to other forms of communications than what these private corporations control.

That being said, I am glad Discord is explictly banning the most obvious forms of transphobia. I will remind the privilaged white people here that none of these rules actually apply to most users on these platforms. Just go to any language or region where they won't/can't get sued or bad press.