Over the weekend, hackers targeted federated social networks like Mastodon to carry out ongoing spam attacks that were organized on Discord, and conducted
Why would a company like discord even attempt to take action against coordinated attacks against anything they see as a threat? That’d only be shooting them in the foot because then people would have the most minute expectation of them doing anything good.
I don’t think any watchdog cares enough about spam laws, let alone the Fediverse, for this to blow up in Discord’s face.
I think Japanese law (the law that’s relevant here) specifies things like email and fax as a source of spam, not social media. I don’t think you can qualify the Fediverse as “electronic mail” like that. Maybe it also applies to other communication methods, but I can’t read Japanese so I can’t verify the online sources.
I’m going off this translation so I’m not entirely sure. I do think the original spammed was arrested, though, so as long as Discord complies with law enforcement orders I expect them to be in the clear.
There is also discord guilds for sharing cheats, which is very damaging to the massive fps games industry. If discord would be complicit why doesn’t valve or riot sue them?
There is also discord guilds for sharing cheats, which is very damaging to the massive fps games industry
Using systems built into the game is damaging to the industry?
Or do you mean cracks/hacks? Because if it’s a cheat, that’s something the devs explicitly added.
And looking at Nintendo vs the R4, these companies do take down sites discussing/sharing hacks and cracks. Just not as publicly as you might expect it to happen because why would they, it’s just a lawyer sending a very formal letter asking for them to either take it down, or their company will be taken down in court.
Then they can’t, and I think that’s also the point. A tool shouldn’t be snitching on its users. If the act itself is illegal, then of course the perpetrators can be prosecuted
Why would a company like discord even attempt to take action against coordinated attacks against anything they see as a threat? That’d only be shooting them in the foot because then people would have the most minute expectation of them doing anything good.
Because some of these actions might qualify as criminal offenses and if Discord had knowledge about it or even supported it, they’d be complicit.
I really hope this blows up in their face if true.
I don’t think any watchdog cares enough about spam laws, let alone the Fediverse, for this to blow up in Discord’s face.
I think Japanese law (the law that’s relevant here) specifies things like email and fax as a source of spam, not social media. I don’t think you can qualify the Fediverse as “electronic mail” like that. Maybe it also applies to other communication methods, but I can’t read Japanese so I can’t verify the online sources.
I’m going off this translation so I’m not entirely sure. I do think the original spammed was arrested, though, so as long as Discord complies with law enforcement orders I expect them to be in the clear.
Ah, Japan, the country that lives in the future, if the future is the year 2000.
From the perspective of looking at the internet of today, the future is 1996.
Change my mind.
There is also discord guilds for sharing cheats, which is very damaging to the massive fps games industry. If discord would be complicit why doesn’t valve or riot sue them?
Using systems built into the game is damaging to the industry?
Or do you mean cracks/hacks? Because if it’s a cheat, that’s something the devs explicitly added.
And looking at Nintendo vs the R4, these companies do take down sites discussing/sharing hacks and cracks. Just not as publicly as you might expect it to happen because why would they, it’s just a lawyer sending a very formal letter asking for them to either take it down, or their company will be taken down in court.
I’m talking about aimbots and wallhacks for online FPS games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwzIq04vd0M
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Interesting side note: if discord was e2e encrypted, how should they take action on anything?
If a group decides to swat a server and they can’t review themselves, how should admin moderation work?
(Yes this isn’t the current situation, but I’m on the toilet and it intrigued me)
Then they can’t, and I think that’s also the point. A tool shouldn’t be snitching on its users. If the act itself is illegal, then of course the perpetrators can be prosecuted