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.
Opt-out before it’s too late.
Well that’s not binding in the EU. Lmao wtf
They explicitly state that their arbitration clause only applies in the US, probably because the US is one of the few major markets that lets them get away with arbitration nonsense and don’t want to get slapped by the EU.
Well, they’re forcing ads on the free version now, so maybe Teamspeak is the place to be 😉
Unironically have wanted to spin up a murmur server for a few months now. Maybe I’ll make that my project for the day.
Do it!
Last time it took me like a hr start to finish to setup one. Was pretty easy.
This sounds extremely illegal bait and switch by many corps including roku and now this
Very scummy, but neither illegal nor bait and switch. For the vast majority of people Discord is free; there’s no lock-in or purchase, which is the necessary element for something to be bait and switch. You can walk away at any time without losing anything of value (as defined by the market and by law).
haven’t been in lemmy much, have you? If you aren’t giving away your life’s work for free with commercial usage license, you are doing something illegal and it’s perfectly fine to steal it. It doesn’t matter if you’re not a mega corp and want to make a living, if your work doesn’t belong to us, you’re not welcome.
Guess they have a press release about compromised user data to release on May 30th…
Which undoubtedly already happened.
Here’s the email address to opt out: arbitration-opt-out@discord.com