How does this impact you in any way?
A lot of these things are normalized already, but requiring IDs is not and I don't want to see it become normalized.
Ultimately, they are free to do what they like (or perhaps being unnecessarily pressured by various govts) and I am free to leave the service.
They got a world where the dollar is worth 10% less, where their customers turn away to EU alternatives, where the US isn’t seen as stable anymore, where the impartiality of the US corporate legal framework is no longer trusted. As the icing on the cake we’re now turning toward handmaid’s tale-style puritanical law (see also: SAVE act).
You can do business with a country with a thriving middle class, the most scientific research output on the planet, the world’s foremost technological and product innovations, and a dynamic, growing economy. Or you can do business with the USA. No wonder Canada is intersted in importing Chinese cars instead of American ones, because they’re better and cheaper.
Corporations know that doing business in the US has a lot of the risks of doing business in Russia. If Dear Leader sours on your company, expect to pay bribes or be forced to divest.
I hope these new draconian rules harm people like Elon and Zuck by reducing the appeal of their platforms.
I am not claiming that Discord in particular supports MAGA, but the industry as a whole has been enablers. At best they are complicit and silent.
The American two party system is essentially a choice between corporate stability (Democrats) and the actual mafia (MAGA Republicans). We elected a convicted felon who has been a literal part of the Russian mafia for decades.
And to be clear, Teamspeak from version 5 on is not teamspeak. It's matrix with a skin. Not that that's terrible, but it's not great for running it on low power/cost VPS like actual teamspeak was.
Jokes aside, I've played around with Campfire and it's very, very simple, but pretty nice to use and easy to set up: https://once.com/campfire
Pardon me if I don't have a lot of trust in their ability to keep it safe.
Why isn’t this delivered via some sort of notification, menu, pop-up, etc? DMs seem prime for phishing
This clearly doesn't work and they're surely aware of it. Perhaps it's even intentional as a choice to give kids a way out, just trying to cover their own asses in regards to regulation.
Previously that was a checkbox or a line in their ToS saying "I'm over 18". Now that lawmakers are pushing to make that no longer sufficient, "AI face scanning" is the next step up.
Though, with AI being used I suspect it wouldn't pass any longer.
Guessing they probably just ran some rudimentary OCR on the image to compare the name and DOB. I modified the actual license# as well as the picture.
Why doesn't Discord require ALL users to upload their faces to prove that they are at least 13 years old and eligible to use the service?
Does it mean that even people who reside outside jurisdictions touched by the age verification craze will have to deal with all this?
> use facial age estimation
Surely a kid won't be able to ask someone else to pass the check for them. But let's talk about false positives. If the estimator falsely declares someone an adult, is Discord legally liable?
> submit a form of identification
If you have a picture of an ID document, can you verify that it's real? You'd have to ask the government for that. And at least in one country there is no process for that.
> On-device processing
Oh, a client-side check. Must be secure.
Also pedophiles do exist (see Epstein and friends) and bad neighborhoods on the internet do exist. This is currently a problem on the internet that needs to be solved. No one here is giving any suggestions how to solve it, but we sure are quick to shot down any solutions that people are trying.
BoredPositron•1h ago