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New Discord TOS binds you to forced arbitration - Opt-Out Now

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/17618684

Forced arbitration means any legal disputes you may have with Discord must be resolved through a single third party mediator, who 99% of the time is chosen by, and will rule in favor of, the corporation/Discord. This effectively removes all your legal rights as a consumer, because arbitration decisions are legally binding and non-appealable.

The new ToS goes into effect April 15th, 2024.

YOU CAN OPT OUT OF ARBITRATION. You must email arbitration-opt-out@discord.com BEFORE MAY 15TH (30 days after ToS effective date) with your username stating that you wish to opt out of the arbitration clause. Once May 15th passes you are bound to arbitration with Discord forever.

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Opt-out before it's too late.

corsicanguppy ,

Welp, killed the account.

Honestly, I wasn't getting much value out of it, so it made sense.

Gamers_Mate , (edited )

Wait I already opted out of arbitration 5 or 6 years ago do I need to do it again?

JakJak98 ,

Can't hurt to sent a 20 second email

Cyberflunk ,

Discord is such a cancer, happy to kill my account

Limonene ,

Haha. I sent them an opt-out notice by email, and it bounced!

They are using Google email servers for discord .com and Google has apparently shadowbanned me. It gives an error message saying "The account [my email address] is disabled." but I have never created a Google or Gmail account, and my email address is on a domain not associated with Google at all.

So I've completed my obligation to opt-out. Discord will have no record of it, but I have the email server logs to prove I sent it.

If, in the future, anyone needs to sue Discord and forgot to opt-out, feel free to use this same excuse.

empireOfLove2 OP , (edited )
@empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Classic.
Assuming that's the email you registered your discord account works, wonder how that domain blacklist even works if it's your primary login. It must have been added after you registered.

That's a major problem with any non-standard email domain names... They're always at risk of being blacklisted by the big names due to "spam" (which conveniently entrenches the power of the big player domains like google). It basically means you can't ever self host email because many large sites will auto blacklist EVERY email server until approved.

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