{"id":7889,"date":"2022-11-15T14:37:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T13:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/15\/uk-treasury-joins-chat-app-discord-and-is-met-with-torrent-of-abuse\/"},"modified":"2022-11-15T14:37:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T13:37:49","slug":"uk-treasury-joins-chat-app-discord-and-is-met-with-torrent-of-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/15\/uk-treasury-joins-chat-app-discord-and-is-met-with-torrent-of-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Treasury joins chat app Discord and is met with torrent of abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Users on gamer-focused platform manage to respond to posts despite government blocking all comments<\/p>\n<p>The UK Treasury has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hmtreasury\/status\/1592449829124407296\">opened an account on Discord<\/a> to a torrent of abuse from users of the gamer-focused chat app \u2013 abuse they managed to send despite the government blocking all comments on the service.<\/p>\n<p>As Twitter\u2019s future looks increasingly uncertain, prominent users are preparing alternatives, directing followers to Facebook and Instagram accounts, handing out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/nov\/12\/joining-the-herd-whats-it-like-moving-from-twitter-to-mastodon\">their Mastodon addresses<\/a>, and setting up servers on chat apps such as Discord.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2022\/nov\/15\/uk-treasury-joins-chat-app-discord-torrent-abuse\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/816bbf2c365ca0cddc177512beb3ee9ee43602cf\/161_165_3060_1836\/master\/3060.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b7c7d275dd41a78ac52d9114ba28bd46\" title=\"UK Treasury joins chat app Discord and is met with torrent of abuse\" \/>Users on gamer-focused platform manage to respond to posts despite government blocking all comments<br \/>\nThe UK Treasury has opened an account on Discord to a torrent of abuse from users of the gamer-focused chat app \u2013 abuse they managed to send despite the government blocking all comments on the service.<br \/>\nAs Twitter\u2019s future looks increasingly uncertain, prominent users are preparing alternatives, directing followers to Facebook and Instagram accounts, handing out their Mastodon addresses, and setting up servers on chat apps such as Discord. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Users on gamer-focused platform manage to respond to posts despite government blocking all comments The UK Treasury has opened an account on Discord to a torrent of abuse from users of the gamer-focused chat app \u2013 abuse they managed to send despite the government blocking all comments on the service. As Twitter\u2019s future looks increasingly &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/15\/uk-treasury-joins-chat-app-discord-and-is-met-with-torrent-of-abuse\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK Treasury joins chat app Discord and is met with torrent of abuse<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7889"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}