Discord Bans Servers That Promote Nazi Ideology (theverge.com)

A popular video game chat service with over 25 million users announced today that it had shut down "a number of accounts" following violence instigated by white supremacists over the weekend. Discord, the service "which lets users chat with voice and text, was being used by proponents of Nazi ideology both before and after the attacks in Charlottesville, Virginia," reports The Verge. "We will continue to take action against Nazi ideology, and all forms of hate," the company said in a tweet. From the report: Discord declined to state how many servers had been affected, but said it included a mix of old accounts and accounts that were created over the weekend. Among the affected servers was one used by AltRight.com, a white nationalist news site. The site's homepage includes a prominent link to a Discord chat which is now broken. The company said it does not read private messages exchanged on its servers. Members of those groups reported messages in the chats for violating Discord's terms of service, the company said, and it took action. "When hatred like this violates our community standards we act swiftly to take servers down and ban individual users," the company said in a statement. "The public server linked to AltRight.com that violated those terms was shut down along with several other public groups and accounts fostering bad actors on Discord. We will continue to be aggressive to ensure that Discord exists for the community we set out to support -- gamers."

Comments

What about left-wing extremists?

[Anonymous Coward]

It's a private company so they can do whatever they want with a service, but it always burns me how you'll see these companies bend over backwards to appease leftist sensibilities but ignore the left-wing extremists. The protests in Charlottesville were over attempts to rewrite history. They were peaceful until left-wing agitators showed up and started causing violence. You can tell by the police response - the police generally left the Unite the Right protestors alone and only had to deal with the violent so-called "antifa" fascists who were there to cause trouble.

Yet are we seeing antifa websites taken down and Black Lives Matter servers shut down? No. No we are not. Everyone is focusing on the people who were the victims of violence and ignoring things like the two police officers who the violent left got killed.

So, fine, you've made your choice, Discord. And I now know never to use your service, because you care more about virtue signaling that shutting down violent extremists.