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Bloodied Macbooks and stacks of cash: Inside the increasingly violent Discord servers where kids flaunt their crimes

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    GalileoPotato
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    Read the article. I don't understand how this crime ring is any different from the other crime rings that make their homes on free, accessible platforms (including but not limited to discord) with...

    Read the article. I don't understand how this crime ring is any different from the other crime rings that make their homes on free, accessible platforms (including but not limited to discord) with devs that don't do enough to stop it. It sounds like the same stuff... racism, guns, extortion, etc. It doesn't need a name either. They're the same kinds of personalities.

    Though, I'm not one to languish on the problem. I like solutions. What would be solutions to this trend of violent crimes and their being able to organize haphazardly through dog whistles on large, open platforms?

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    1. tachyon
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      A couple of things lined up well for this story to work: The reporter found and accessed a (criminally) active server and stayed undetected long enough to gather enough material for a story.

      I don't understand how this crime ring is any different from the other crime rings that make their homes on free, accessible platforms (including but not limited to discord) with devs that don't do enough to stop it.

      A couple of things lined up well for this story to work: The reporter found and accessed a (criminally) active server and stayed undetected long enough to gather enough material for a story.

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