Discord representatives said that in order to comply with the Apple App Store rules, users must toggle on the option to view NSFW servers while on their desktop or browser. To access any NSFW server on the Discord iOS app, all users 18+ must opt-in to seeing such content in their personal settings. This measure protects children from joining inappropriate servers-as long as Discord’s content moderation can properly flag these communities and users choose to proactively self-designate. Now, servers that are marked as NSFW will automatically block minor users from joining them, an easy loophole discovered in our Dirty Dozen List research that allowed accounts as young as 13 years old to join pornography servers dedicated to trading non-consensual images, even if some of the individual channels were age-gated. Discord added the ability to designate entire servers as NSFW instead of just individual channels within a server.Here is a breakdown of the latest changes: has new safety features after being named to the 2021 #DirtyDozenList! Learn more. Their new update is exactly one of the improvements we asked for back in February, an automatic ban on any minor-aged account from joining servers that contain NSFW content. Discord’s previous policies fostered an environment of online exploitation, with the lack of moderation and content enforcement allowing exploiters to groom children for sexual abuse or sex trafficking, and to trade pornography-including child sexual abuse materials, non-consensually recorded and/or shared pornography, and more.ĭiscord’s new policies surrounding “Not Safe For Work” (NSFW) content help alleviate concerns about child safety and the potential exposure to graphic, exploitative pornography scattered across Discord’s thousands of servers, and the National Center on Sexual Exploitation commends Discord for taking a step in the right direction in protecting ALL the users on their platform. Discord, a popular communication service used by over 100 million active monthly users, recently announced key changes to the way they handle explicit content on their platform-just months after the company was named to the National Center on Sexual Exploitation’s annual Dirty Dozen List for a distinct lack of safety features.
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