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Re:Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally by heavyset_go on Monday February 09, 2026 @11:51PM (#46955535)
This is a distinction that no existing or proposed law has made and is based solely on your feels.

A social network exists between people, it does not require a platform or technology. Social media is a medium where people correspond.

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Re:Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally by Gud on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @12:53AM (#46955877)
https://www.techtarget.com/searchunifiedcommunications/answe...
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Re:Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally by fc417fc802 on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @04:02AM (#46957070)
All the explainers in the world don't matter if people don't actually use the terminology that way.
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Re:Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally by direwolf20 on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @06:07AM (#46958109)
And yet here we are, using the terminology that way.
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Re:Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally by fc417fc802 on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @03:48PM (#46966672)
Not uniformly, no. The local comment subtree is plenty evidence of that.
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