Can't speak for the parent, but I suspect they're referring to two things:
1) A good chunk of Discord is owned by Tencent, a big Chinese conglomerate
2) Discord decrypts and then re-encrypts content on its servers, allegedly for efficiency reasons
I think for a small startup that is making games/software which are non-controversial, Discord might still be a fine choice. For anything requiring assurances of enterprise-grade security, I'd avoid it.
> 1) A good chunk of Discord is owned by Tencent, a big Chinese conglomerate
The most credible source from this is this article[0], but since it's VC we have no idea what the ownership looks like. For all we know Tencent owns 5% or less of Discord, especially given two companies are listed before them in the article:
> The round was led by Greenoaks Capital with participation from Firstmark, Tencent, IVP, Index Ventures and Technology Opportunity Partners.
In general Tencent has more pull in other big gaming companies[1], which is more concerning imo.
1) A good chunk of Discord is owned by Tencent, a big Chinese conglomerate
2) Discord decrypts and then re-encrypts content on its servers, allegedly for efficiency reasons
I think for a small startup that is making games/software which are non-controversial, Discord might still be a fine choice. For anything requiring assurances of enterprise-grade security, I'd avoid it.