Everybody knows that these claims are bullshit. "1st Amendment rights" is the biggest dog whistle for bigots that they claim whenever their disrespectful conduct has consequences. You don't give a flying fuck about other people's "1st Amendment rights" when it isn't your racist, sexist or transphobic friends. Otherwise you'd be up in arms against book bans, but your kind cheers for them and every other effort to silence people you don't like.

There it is.

1A is irrelevant, it only protects against censorship by the government. Discord is a private entity, they can do whatever the hell they want on the platform they own. They aren't obligated to host your opinions, and neither are conservative outlets obligated to host liberal opinions. Get it right next time.

dont even need to read past the first line, how many times do i have to say this for anyone like you to get it in your head

THE FIRST AMENDMENT ONLY PROTECTS YOU FROM GOVERNMENT SILENCING

no, discord, the private chat service, that you must agree to their terms to use is not a government service. they can ban you for whatever they fuck they want, and are not liable.

There are already protections for bullying on Internet platforms. Intentionally misgendering is a form of bullying.

The right to life should supercede someone's right to free speech to undermine said life.

Just a reminder. What private companies do has nothing to do with your first amendment rights.

Grow up or shut up.

Please detail to me how discord, a private company, banning people who intentionally misgender or dead name others is a violation or the first amendment right in the United States?

It doesn't say 'intentionally' as you've pointed out, but the wording is clear and pretty reinforced throughout the article, just below the following quote in the article is another 3 'targeted' explanations:

"The update explicitly addresses behaviors considered violations of its hate speech policy, including targeted misgendering and deadnaming of transgender individuals."

You can't say bomb in an airplane. You can't shout fire in a building. You can't shout removed in a Walmart. No one's saying you can't THINK whatever you feel like and SAY whatever you want in your own spaces, but you don't own discord or the plane or the building or the Walmart so you gotta follow other people's rules. Woe is you

Just once in my life, i would like an American to actually know what the first amendment to the US constitution actually says.

what is it with kbin users and having the worst/most transphobic fucking takes?

Discord isn't the government, FYI

It's crazy calling people unsophisticated when you're this dumb. But crazy kinda fits your style.

Lmao are you governed by discord?

Actually cry about it they just enumerated what they meant by harassment and this makes the rules explicitly more clear and not up to interpretation and abuse.

Big tech censorship? I mean the police are using pretty big tech to make sure only one side can protest safely. 1st amendment amirite.

The rights of a business are more important than your own. Isn't that what you guys want?

Explain how your first amendment rights are being whittled away here.

I won't deny that Big Tech and Media companies do undermine our freedom in many ways (things like weaponizing copyright and anti-repair or anti-circumvention laws), but this isn't an example of that, this is just Discord expanding on rules against hate speech and harassment which they already were against.

I was a moderator of a gaming server with 2k people. I quit modding and left the server over this.

I've not once seen Discord enforce their policies. In fact, I can still look back in my DM history and see active users who have made clear and explicit threats with a side of slurs to black and LGBT+ people. No action whatsoever on their part, even though I did my diligence by reporting them.

I mean, I'm a trans woman and I would indeed say "Discord's not a government" if they adopted such an asinine policy. I'd also probably be fairly critical of those continuing to use it.

I agree that silencing speech is a bad thing. I'm just not sure that I agree that moderation on any particular site is silencing speech. We're all free to use the sites we like. While I might think your putative policy of banning trans advocacy is imprudent, I would still respect the right of a host to have such a policy (while maintaining my own right to boycott/criticize).

It means we all dead name x