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Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers (www.theverge.com)

submitted 5 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/technology@lemmy.zip

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And perhaps sidestepping its own policy in the process.

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[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 months ago

I don't buy it. If you have examples of someone successfully suing to be unbanned because the ban was beyond the terms of service I'll be convinced but I don't think that's ever happened or would ever happen because I don't think terms of service waive any rights to deny access to servers the company owns, especially when it's free to begin with.

From the article:

At the end of the day, platforms like Discord have no obligation to host anything they don’t want to host, as we discussed back when GitLab did something similar by deplatforming Suyu’s code.

“Their first email was that my account has broken the TOS, with no additional information.” He claims Sudachi wasn’t doing anything infringing. Later, he was told it vaguely had something to do with intellectual property but says Discord still hasn’t given him any details.

The bans I've gotten myself are always like this when it's a big company. No real explanation given, no recourse possible, I don't expect a lawyer would tell me differently. IMO the only solution is to stop focusing on the "rules" they have written entirely for their own benefit and start using systems that are more decentralized in terms of who is actually in control.