Discord has banned cub porn following the media attention regarding their previous stance on it.
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Changing policy on cub porn
Over the past couple of weeks, posts have appeared inquiring about Discord’s stance on a niche area of NSFW policy, which is cub porn. A screenshot of an email we sent about a year ago in February 2018 has garnered significant commentary and criticism about our policy.
As our Community Guidelines state, the following immediately results in account deletion:
Sharing content related to minors that is sexually suggestive or violent. Do not share or post links to images that depict minors or underage individuals engaged in violent, sexually suggestive, pornographic, shameful, or otherwise inappropriate situations.
Furthermore, the following will lead to content removal and a warning (or ban depending on the severity):
Sharing illustrated or digitally altered pornography which depicts minors (such as lolicon or shotacon).
One major reason this policy is in place on Discord is because there is a federal law in the United States against the sexualized images of minors, which includes cartoons and drawings. You can see this distinction in action on Google Images which does not show results for lolicon but does show results for cub porn.
Discord’s current policy is that anything human or humanoid is forbidden (including anthropomorphized characters). This includes most cub pornography.
While this is already more restrictive than what the law requires, we’ve received feedback that we’re not comprehensive enough here. As of today, we’re changing our policy to ban all cub porn. This means the sexualization of minor ban now extends to non-humanoid animals and mythological creatures as long as they appear to be underage. We’re adding “cub” to the list of categories, after lolicon and shotacon, to our Community Guidelines to clarify that this content is not allowed on Discord.
