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*For US users
EU users are already protected so this doesn't apply to them.
Its amazing that a company in the US can simply demand that if you use their services you have to agree not to sue them. Its one of the only reasons anyone could or would sue them!
Don't forget the use of mandatory employment arbitration which effectively reduces workers rights by not allowing them a right to legal action.
Just tacking on to your comment for any US workers:
Just because you can't sue for your rights doesn't mean nobody can. The government is often perfectly happy to sue on your behalf to recover lost wages or to punish workplace health and safety violations.
wow! and they think people don't want to work!
bUt wE aLsO wAiVE tHe rIgHT to SuE yOu! says the company who doesn't stand to gain anything from suing its users
Common W for the EU
...in the USA. Doesn't affect us over the pond, but very important for USA users to take note.
…in the USA. Doesn’t affect us over the pond, but very important for USA users to take note.
Really appreciate you guys over there keeping up the pressure on corporations to act ethically/ accordingly.
Here's hoping some of that splash back happens over here.
High five for unalienable rights
Shows how much been biased countrywise the posts are. And internet in general.
Companies can do that in US? Sounds like a loophole...
There are many, we're just oblivious because it doesn't affect us in our day to day lives. I'm sure there are loopholes in the EU as well.
I'm sure there are loopholes in the EU as well.
Sure, yeah.
Welcome to the corpocracy and the land of the fee.
Just opt out of discord. It’s a lot easier.
Go ahead, give Discord your address
It already has anyway. Ive requested my discord data once and everytime you do anything in discord it explicitly saves and stores the location of where you were when you interacted with discord.
Everyone calm down. They're just going to use it for training AI and if you love tech you love AI. So this is a non-issue.
The trained AI will make their public offering so much more desirable
unmarked sarcasm whooshes even the mighty users of Lemmy, apparently
tbf it was sarcasm so dry it might even trick a British person! xD
I attempted to email [email protected] per the ToS and got a bounceback.
The article says [email protected]
Also be sure that you send it from the email associated with your account. As per the update on the situation discord gave, in which it announced an extended deadline of 90 days up from 30 days from April 15th or account creation, the contents of the email don't seem to matter much.
I included my account userid and username just to be safe.
Ah, thanks!
A bounceback? What does that mean? Anyways I sent three emails to [email protected] but got no replies at all.
So we are caring about privacy but that polygon site is a massive scrapper
Any particular reason for this whataboutism that makes it stand out from the average website?
It's a massive scrapper?
Like it engages in scrappy flights? I guess that's one way to frame fighting with discord but I'd personally see them as fairly comparable weight classes.
Or did you mean scraper like vacuuming up data* off of everyone who visits?
I deleted my Discord account 2 days ago, and I'm very happy with that choice. Conversations / Any XMPP client is significantly better than Discord in terms of direct messaging and small groups for friends. Some of my friends haven't switched to Conversations yet, but at that point it is their choice to not speak with me outside of work.