The company also pointed out that while channels with 18+ content must be designated as NSFW, having channels with that categorization doesn’t automatically mean your entire server will have to be kept behind that gate, so younger users may still be able to access the rest of your community if it’s safe. Once labeled, users between the ages of 13 and 17 will not be able to access them. It's absurd.According to the service’s latest community guidelines, mature and adult content must be kept behind an NSFW gate, and Discord is now making it easier for server and channel admins to implement this check by allow them to designate entire communities as NSFW. This happened every time they found a sexy blog they didn't like. When we dealt with this at Tumblr, it became my full-time jobs for weeks to find incredibly complex ways to appease Apple's censors. ![]() "Entire businesses and communities have been crushed by it, and it often hurts queer and trans communities most. "Apple's regressive stance on sexual content being available on its largest platform is verging on a full-on moral panic, and it's really gross," former Tumblr Product Manager Matthew Bischoff wrote on Twitter. Still, preventing adults from accessing adult content on one platform specifically seems like a counterintuitive way to stay in Apple's good graces in this regard. ![]() Weeks later, though, Tumblr decided to ban all adult content from the service, a move that preceded a quick return to the iOS App Store.ĭiscord is using a lighter touch here, identifying and segregating NSFW content from iOS users rather than banning it altogether. At the time, Tumblr said that removal was due to "media featuring child sexual exploitation and abuse" that has slipped through its automated filters. Advertisementįurther Reading Verizon takes aim at Tumblr’s kneecaps, bans all adult contentDiscord's move follows Apple's removal of the iOS Tumblr blogging app in 2018. do not belong on the App Store." The guidelines allow for "incidental" NSFW content generated by users on web-based services if "the content is hidden by default and only displayed when the user turns it on via your website," a caveat that apparently isn't sufficient for Discord's comfort. ![]() But that age change will still be meaningless on iOS, where users of all ages will be barred from NSFW content.ĭiscord didn't specify why iOS users are being treated differently from those on other platforms, but Apple's iOS Developer Guidelines say that apps with user-generated content "that end up being used primarily for pornographic content. ![]() Individual users can also contact Discord if they were accidentally identified as minors during an age-verification process. That NSFW designation can be set by the server owner or by Discord itself, in keeping with community guidelines requiring the label on "adult content." Individual channels within a server can be designated as NSFW without imposing limits on the full server, but an entire server may be labeled as NSFW "if the community is organized around NSFW themes or if the majority of the server’s content is 18+," the company said.ĭiscord has set up an appeals process for server owners to challenge an NSFW designation. iOS users aged 18+ will still be able to join and access NSFW communities on the desktop and web versions of Discord." The gaming-focused social networking app-which lets users create public or private servers to chat via text, image, voice, and video livestreaming- announced this week that "all users on the iOS platform (including those aged 18+) will be blocked from joining and accessing NSFW servers. Discord users who access the Discord app through iOS will now face restrictions on adult content that go beyond those for other platforms.
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