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Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month (www.theverge.com)
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Discord announced on Monday that it’s rolling out age verification on its platform globally starting next month, when it will automatically set all users’ accounts to a “teen-appropriate” experience unless they demonstrate that they’re adults.

Users who aren’t verified as adults will not be able to access age-restricted servers and channels, won’t be able to speak in Discord’s livestream-like “stage” channels, and will see content filters for any content Discord detects as graphic or sensitive. They will also get warning prompts for friend requests from potentially unfamiliar users, and DMs from unfamiliar users will be automatically filtered into a separate inbox.

Direct messages and servers that are not age-restricted will continue to function normally, but users won’t be able to send messages or view content in an age-restricted server until they complete the age check process, even if it’s a server they were part of before age verification rolled out. Savannah Badalich, Discord’s global head of product policy, said in an interview with The Verge that those servers will be “obfuscated” with a black screen until the user verifies they’re an adult. Users also won’t be able to join any new age-restricted servers without verifying their age.

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[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Idk if youve been living under a rock, but we have a facists government in power with direct ties to our tech oligarchs who have literally said they're trying to harvest everyone's data.

Its not a conspiracy, its just fact.

Look into Peter Thiel and Palantir, look into Epstein and his ties with Trump and the tech broligarchs, look into Cambridge Analytica and Meta, its really not difficult to see how all of this is coalescing to harvest all your data and use it for whatever they want across a gigantic database and while you might think it's already hopeless that doesn't mean you should make it even easier for them to do so.

[–] Auth@lemmy.world 0 points 13 hours ago

Palantir already has full access to the governments data which includes your ID. They dont need to get it via discord changing the way it handles age verification.