[rabbits77]

I am generally against forced arbitration, so I understand the push back against this. Then again, and maybe I am just overly tired right now, but I cannot imagine a scenario where I would be involved in any sort of legal action whatsoever against a chat server company? Can someone share with me a plausible example of where this would come into play for an ordinary user?

[wongarsu]

Privacy violations, not adequately protecting your data, defamation, selling sensitive information you discussed on discord, ... There are a lot of crimes you can commit when entrusted with other people's communication. It's not just gamers on there, some companies use them as a slack alternative, people use them for private chats with other people where you might mention sensitive information, there are lots of communities of all sexual orientations and fetishes where making that data public could legitimately hurt the user.

Of course the reason everyone suspects is because a website that sells Discord chat logs became very well known. Basically you tell them a username and they scrape Discord servers, and if you tell them a user name they sell you everything they know about that person. This might have been a wakeup call for Discord regarding their potential legal liability.

[thfuran]

>Privacy violations, not adequately protecting your data, defamation, selling sensitive information you discussed on discord, ... There are a lot of crimes you can commit when entrusted with other people's communication

Aside from defamation, which I can't really imagine actually occurring here, are any of those actually crimes? They just sound like dick moves.