Wilshire@sopuli.xyz to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoDiscord took no action against server that coordinated costly Mastodon spam attackstechcrunch.comexternal-linkmessage-square78fedilinkarrow-up1630arrow-down112cross-posted to: fediverse_press@lemmy.worldtech@kbin.social
arrow-up1618arrow-down1external-linkDiscord took no action against server that coordinated costly Mastodon spam attackstechcrunch.comWilshire@sopuli.xyz to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square78fedilinkcross-posted to: fediverse_press@lemmy.worldtech@kbin.social
minus-squarecsm10495@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoInteresting 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)
minus-squarefossphi@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThen 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
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