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I had trouble getting Discord to respect the law regarding automated account termination. I contacted my local data protection authorities and then contacted Discord through several channels and informed them that I had contacted the authorities. Within a day, they reinstated my account without a word.

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That is the default now for big companies, it seems. They think they are invincible, and that one measly user cannot harm them. You have to basically threaten them to get them in legal trouble with a bigger player like the EU, so that they listen. This is because all their incentives are tied to profit, instead of ethics of freedom and consent. Unless you have something, that could harm their profit, they will try to abuse you.

They wouldn't even tell me what I had supposedly done wrong when they terminated my account, and said that they investigated the claim and upheld the termination... That is, when they eventually responded.

I had to make a new account and set all the servers and such back up.

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