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Re:Discord Inc. fined 800 000 euros by the CNIL, GDPR regula... by doublerabbit on Thursday November 17, 2022 @12:23PM (#33642291)
I would argue that discord and IRC, are email too. It's just the protocol of communication dictates. They all carrier data to a username@somewhere. Whether it a tld, username, id.

IRC enables Text & Attachments in text form (ie links)

Email Enables Attachments in visual (html emails)

Discord Enables Voice, Text and Attachments (Asynchronous sockets)

That's all it is. Present a Video, Picture, Voice to your visitor and you've got a new product. Just as facebook,twitter,myspace.

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Re:Discord Inc. fined 800 000 euros by the CNIL, GDPR regula... by sangnoir on Thursday November 17, 2022 @03:50PM (#33645463)
> I would argue that discord and IRC, are email too. It's just the protocol of communication dictates.

Assuming all this is correct, if a GMail user requests their account to be deleted, Google should delete that data.

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