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Türkiye and Russia have moved to ban the popular communication platform Discord, citing concerns about child abuse and other criminal activities.
In Türkiye, authorities blocked access to Discord after a court ruling linked the platform to incidents of child sexual abuse and obscene content, such as technology/turkey-blocks-instant-messaging-platform-discord-2024-10-09/” target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow”>confirmed by Reuters today.
Public outrage intensified following reports of violent content circulating on Discord, including posts about a recent stuntman. homicide.
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“Social media providers and websites that broadcast in our country and have millions of users must also comply with the laws and regulations of the Republic of Türkiye. Nobody has privileges.”
Yılmaz Tunç wrote.
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The Turkish ban came hours after Russia also technology/russia-blocks-instant-messaging-platform-discord-tass-reports-2024-10-08/” target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow”>forbidden Discord as part of its broader crackdown on non-compliant tech companies. The Russian government previously fined Discord for failing to remove banned content and has now stepped up its actions, banning the platform entirely.
These measures come amid increasing scrutiny of foreign tech companies in Russia, with Discord joining other major platforms such as facebook and instagram on the ban list.
Meanwhile, Discord has also been linked to cryptocurrency-related crimes in recent years. Reports have emerged about crypto scams organized through private channels on the platform. In 2021, Kaspersky warned of a scam targeting Discord users and directing them to fraudulent crypto exchanges.
Scammers have also leveraged Discord to promote crypto pump and dump schemes. The United States Department of Justice previously filed a tech/social-media-pump-dump-discord-twitter/index.html” target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow”>case against seven x users who ran a $100 million crypto pump and dump scheme using Discord.
Some nefarious people also took advantage of a fake Discord channel for the crypto Project Access Protocol to scam investors worth $880,000. Furthermore, other cryptocurrency projects such as OpenSea, Renzo, and Polygon have witnessed breaches of their Discord accounts, as hackers intended to use them for criminal activities.
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