>I know one thing, I will not be letting my children near discord
Ten years later: why is my kid such a loner?
Discord is the main persistent group chat service in the west (telegram seems popular in the third world except for China). It's used for virtually everything. Socially it's almost equivalent to cutting your kids from any online chat.
Honestly, I would consider a total ban a mild form of child abuse.
Did you skip over my justification? That people are using discord to talk to kids about sex and DIY hormone therapy, and selling BATHTUB hormones to kids without their parents knowing?
Discord is just chatrooms, known as 'servers', either public or private, ranging from tiny to massive. Anyone can create a discord server and plenty do. They're used for gaming, art, animation, learning languages, programming and, most importantly, keeping in touch with friends.
I've joining a large number of public discord servers and they've all been safe and well moderated.
Only a miniscule number of people would come across the server mentioned. If your kids want to learn about sex or hormones they'll learn it from plenty of other websites, or their mates. It's also unlikely they would learn about hormones, they would have to intentionally look for it, and they're probably not trans so why would they?
Same reasoning works for banning internet in general.
Banning discord in general is of course less damaging, but the reasoning is similarly incorrect. It's an enormous platform for chats about virtually everything.
A general ban on discord is going to socially harm any kid in the west.
Ten years later: why is my kid such a loner?
Discord is the main persistent group chat service in the west (telegram seems popular in the third world except for China). It's used for virtually everything. Socially it's almost equivalent to cutting your kids from any online chat.
Honestly, I would consider a total ban a mild form of child abuse.