Discord, this is Awful

Discord Parental Controls, the biggest Band-Aid fix to one of the most fundamental problems of the platform, safety.

If you didn't know, Discord is filled with the most vile stuff on the planet. From malware that will steal your credit card info to graphic content that will put you in jail. Now instead of putting every ounce of effort into trying to combat those issues, Discord makes a shiny new family center feature that is not only fundamentally flawed, but is easily bypassed through either basic tricks or just making a new discord account.

Dunno how this made it out the concept phase but I would assume it's to appease the out of touch moronic investors. YAY!

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[NoTextToSpeech]

My intentions of including the "iykyk" keyword are extremely clear, this content exists on the surface web and you should be aware of what keywords and tools creeps are using so that you can avoid them.

The unfortunate reality is that a sizable chunk of internet users will at some point in their lives be exposed to this content. Either in some sort of sick joke or falling down an internet rabbit hole due to not knowing the warning signs. Seeing this content is traumatic, it scars you for life and I hope that bringing awareness to this issue reduces the number of people that have to deal with the mental torment of being exposed to this material.

One thing that I wish I included is that you should NEVER click on a mega .nz link. So stay away from ambiguous server tags or server names and stay away from mega .nz links. While mega .nz is a normal file hosting service, the encryption element of it prevents automated CSAM hash detection software from flagging the material and putting the piece of human trash behind bars.

And while I do genuinely believe that the vast majority of my audience clearly know how disgusting this content is, there is a non-zero chance that a viewer out of the 750k+ views is a creep. Thankfully if that creep uses the "iykyk" keyword to seek out this content on Discord, they are almost always going to end up in a fed trap where they get their well deserved migration to a concrete cell.


I strongly believe that the benefits of teaching people how to avoid this traumatic content significantly outweigh the possibilities of a creep using this information (which just leads to them going into a trap laid by the feds. I know people will disagree with me because this is the internet but I assure you that I have thoroughly thought about whether or not this information should be kept or omitted from the video and I hope this clarification helps you understand my perspective.

[pemadamzz]

the fact discord was from "for gamers" to "teens now need to have parental supervision online"

[ILC_YTP]

Really goes to show that discord didn't think this through when a parental control option as obvious as "disable access to NSFW channels" isn't included

[Our_Remedy]

As someone who grew up with parental control loving over-protective parents. Parental controls do literally nothing in keeping a kid safe, or moderate their usage of stuff. Being controlling and restrictive of your kids interests just breeds distrust between you and them, and just trains them to be more sneaky in doing what they want as opposed to sucking up to you to get more screentime or whatever.

[rocketlaunchjr]

Discord in two days: family center is nitro subscribers only

[whyamihere]

Discord Changelogs!

- Added unnecessary features
- Added more possibilities for scams

[omoriref]

This concerns me terribly because so many adolescents on discord vent about their incredibly abusive and manipulative parents. Discord was a safe space for them to get help and support from other teens going through the same thing. I can only imagine what terrible things their parents would do finding out about them venting about their problematic behavior.

[DerpySnake]

Trusting discord with your kids is like trusting a pyromaniac as the chief of the fire department.

[crescentmoonbeam]

Adding parental controls to discord is equivalent to putting parental controls on the hub

[TehNoobiness]

the stupidest part of all this is that the majority of child abuse is committed by parents, teachers, and other authority figures in the kid's life

you know, exactly the kind of people that this system gives extra surveillance tools to

[_Hamster]

Maybe Discord should focus more on giving the community what it wants instead of making changes no one asked for 💀

[FlorizDev]

I love how they just added parental controls, even tho the platform is 13+ and no kids allowed

[Olivia-bcfq]

My mom's therapist literally told her not to be super adamant about being on Discord to watch me or whatever. It turns out that communicating and being able to trust your child to not be talking to absolute creeps isn't actually that hard

[mr.whimsic]

This whole thing would've been an April Fools joke made by early Discord

[films]

I love how they do something that does nothing, and say “They can’t see the content of your messages” which is literally the ONLY way you can know if your kid is doing something bad

[YazmineYin]

As someone who got their phone taken away and discord messages read and screenshotted as "evidence" during their teen years. I am both glad that this wasn't a thing back then and also feel really bad for the kids that will be subjected to this BS.

[giantpickle]

As a kid with helicopter parents, this is my absolute nightmare. I'm just looking through the usernames I've had DMs with and...yikes. Discord is setting us up for a "What the hell did you say to them?" situation. Also, showing them what servers we are in often allows them to join all of those servers and see what we are saying and when.

[memeyartist]

im so goddamn tired of apps adding features to give emotionally abusive parents more access to their kid's personal life

[YourPalKindred]

Parental controls are what bad parents use to punish their children. My parents never used parental controls (granted there werent many during the early 2000s to mid 2010s) but just taught me how to keep away from that bad shit

[SleepyKonii]

As someone with emotionally abusive grandparents (I am 21), this is going to end poorly for the people with abusive parents