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ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says (www.bbc.co.uk)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/technology@beehaw.org
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[–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It's not about the individual behavior though and shaming someone for this doesn't change anything. If you have a wildly popular social media network, thousands/millions of people will provide their ID if requested. This is all on Discord for not keeping the IDs safe and for asking for them in the first place.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Their business is farming idiots, if you don't protect yourself, nobody will

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Of course everyone should try to be safe online and we should try to give anyone the ability to protect themselves. Shaming individuals will actively prevent people from being educated. The issue at hand is about the business practices and security standards of discord, not individual people. I get that in this bleak capitalist system, neither discord nor any other company has the incentive to care about people. But it's their responsibility nonetheless. Despite the economic system we live in constantly pressuring us to compete with each other, we should not give in but be empathetic with and help each other.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Telling people that it is Discord's responsibility to protect them is bad education.

    It is not and they will not. The sooner people get the idea that corporation is the enemy of the working class, the quicker we get to move to the change phase of operation.

    As long as people keep doing stupid shit, the longer the corporations will continue to fuck them over. It is business 101. Why should they change when idiot consumers won't

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    You did not get what I was saying at all. Fundamentally, we agree on this and believe me, I'm just as frustrated as you with people blindly following these big tech companies. I'm just trying to say we should be more friendly to people who are not yet technically proficient. I experience it in my day to day life all the time that people choose comfort over their own freedom/their own rights. If I were just to call them stupid, this would just build up resentment and would only really benefit me to feel superior. Instead, I try to educate them about how big tech harms everyone and what alternatives there are. I've had years of practice being vegan and having to constantly maneuver situations where people would get mad at me for sticking to my principles. I feel like this is something similar, sticking to the principle of not giving in to the comfort of big tech.

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