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- Discord has changed their Terms of Service!
- Unfortunately, this change comes with a revocation of your legal rights. Discord has revoked your right to sue (you must go through an arbitrator) and to congregate as a class action lawsuit.
- Luckily, there is an opt-out for the clause, in which you must email arbitration-opt-out@discord.com, but you must do it within 30 days or you can no longer opt-out.
- YOU CANNOT DELETE OR DEACTIVATE YOUR ACCOUNT TO OPT-OUT OF THE ARBITRATION CLAUSE
- You can see the added clauses for yourself here: https://gist.github.com/Rapptz/c93697c9d59ec2f0d8071b7d0e907632
- I will attempt to answer some common questions.
- Is this enforceable?
- In the United States, yes. This was decided by the Supreme Court in 2011. See https://gc.gy/7538114
- In the European Union, not necessarily. There are many clauses, a relevant one is Article 77 of the GDPR ("Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority").
- Why does this matter?
- Without the ability to congregate for a class action lawsuit, if Discord ever leaks your data or does something catastrophically bad to a large portion of the population you have no way to representatively sue together without each of you individually suing via the arbitrator.
- Please see the following article: https://gc.gy/7538130
- Essentially:
- 1. Your right to file a complaint in the court of law is removed.
- 2. The arbitration system tends to heavily favour the company rather than the consumer.
- 3. Since your right to pool similar complaints together is taken away, the amount of damage you can do to a company that has wronged you significantly is limited to those who are willing to arbitrate.
- What you need to do to opt-out
- Email arbitration-opt-out@discord.com from the email associated with your account, with the following (no special formatting required):
- Subject: Opt-out from the arbitration clause
- Content: I'd like to opt-out from your arbitration clause. Include your username.
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