Opt Out of Discord's Arbitration Clause
Discord has pushed an update today (2025-09-39) to it's Terms of Service with the following section:
**Opt-out.** You can decline this **Agreement to Arbitrate**–and no other provision of these terms–by emailing an opt-out notice to arbitration-opt-out@discord.com within 30 days of September 29, 2025 or when you first register your Discord account, whichever is later; otherwise, you shall be bound to arbitrate Disputes in accordance with the terms of these paragraphs. If you opt out of the Agreement to Arbitrate, Discord also will not be bound by it and there shall be no arbitration agreement existing between you and Discord, whether under these or prior arbitration provisions. If you opt out of the Agreement to Arbitrate, you may exercise your right to a trial by jury or judge, as permitted by applicable law, but any prior existing agreement to arbitrate Disputes will not apply to claims not yet filed. If you opt out of the Agreement to Arbitrate, you will not be opting out of any other provision of these terms and you agree to be bound by all other provisions of these terms, which shall remain in effect as allowable by law.
This means Discord Inc will take away your legal right to face them properly in a court of law, should the need arise.
How to opt out
Email `arbitration-opt-out@discord.com` by October 29th, 2025 **from the same email you use your Discord account** and tell them at minimum:
**I opt-out of the Agreement to Arbitrate.**
You can say more if you want. I certainly did with much sterner wording.
This is amoral behavior from Discord
Discord has repeated this stunt multiple times since. They keep making new updates to refresh wasting the user's time having to submit an opt-out notice, hoping they'll miss it one of these times.
This sort of agreement should not be opt-out. Agreements should always be opt-in. It's not real consent unless the person has explicitly, knowingly, willingly, directly agreed to it, along with the power to say no.
Discord is using coercion to force the user to agree, meaning they do not have the power to say no. The user's account and data are held hostage until they agree. There is no option given to decline when given the notice of the new policy updates. Only a button to accept.
Discord has failed to adequately notify users of the change. This opt-out requirement is not mentioned at all in the accompanying Important Policy Updates they posted.
It's not just Discord who is doing this. Check out this video going over Indeed's attempt at this. More and more companies are going to be doing this, and they'll give you even less notice than Discord did.
(YouTube) Indeed quietly strips away your right to sue, while forcing you to accept spam
The law needs to be changed to punish companies who use this sort of sneaky and evil behavior. No company should be allowed to trick users into giving away their rights.
/gemlog/