“Our Community Guidelines require that adult content is placed behind an 18+ age gate. Update 3:37pm CT, April 13: When reached for comment, a Discord spokesperson told the Daily Dot that the company is “committed to ensuring a safer experience for everyone on Discord.”
The Daily Dot reached out to Discord for comment. The service has increasingly sought out investment and monetization in recent years as well, sparking fears that the platform may prove increasingly antagonistic to 18+ material. In 2018, Discord pulled partnership status for servers with adult content, forcing some partnered servers to remove their NSFW channels. This isn’t the first time Discord’s policies negatively impacted its NSFW community. And android users pls don’t feel superior out of this cause they will probably extend the ban eventually to android too - minicooly大粒露- 地獄原稿中 April 13, 2021 It’s absurd.”ĭon’t babysit adults holy shit. “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,” Bischoff tweeted. Designer and tech writer Matthew Bischoff, a former Tumblr employee, warned on Twitter that Apple’s “regressive stance” on adult content in its App Store is “verging on a full on moral panic” that threatens “entire businesses and communities,” particularly for marginalized queer and trans users, they wrote. The iOS block is a “significant restriction” that’s “almost certainly meant to cater to Apple’s strict and often prudish rules around nudity in services distributed through the App Store,” the Verge reports.ĭiscord’s iOS NSFW restrictions have rattled users in the wake of the Tumblr NSFW ban and fears around Twitter NSFW censorship. Discord will mark servers meeting these criteria as NSFW if they are not appropriately designated,” Discord staffer Potato notes in its guidelines. “Servers must be classified as NSFW if the community is organized around NSFW themes or if the majority of the server’s content is 18+. This prevents iPhone and iPad users from “joining and accessing NSFW servers” on these devices, although they may still post on these communities on Discord’s desktop app and web browser version. In an update to its guidelines this week, Discord announced that servers designated as NSFW are now blocked on the Discord iOS app, regardless of users’ age. The popular instant messaging and voice chat app Discord has banned NSFW server access on its iOS app, sparking backlash from concerned users.