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Discord Distances Itself from Peter Thiel's Palantir Age Verification Firm

https://kotaku.com/discord-palantir-peter-thiel-persona-age-verification-2000668951
57•thisislife2•3h ago

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anonymous_user9•1h ago
Notably, by doing this Discord lied in their initial announcement. They originally said [1] that all processing would be on-device, but that's not true for users subject to this "experiment".

1: https://discord.com/press-releases/discord-launches-teen-by-...

Morromist•56m ago
As Argento Dragone said in the Kotaku comments:

"Face scanning is used to do ID verification on your device and then deleted immediately."

"By immediately I mean we send it to k-ID who said that's what they do."

"By that I mean they partnered with Persona to do the actual verification."

"Persona clarified that by 'immediately' they mean 'after seven days.'"

"And given their ties to Palantir, it's probably fine. You trust us, right?"

deaux•53m ago
Article title, which was a lot clearer than this one: "Discord Distances Itself From Age Verification Firm After Ties To Palantir’s Peter Thiel Surface"

Not sure why you changed it but it makes quite the difference to the meaning.

mhitza•40m ago
That's too long of a title for a HN submission, i think.
mvdtnz•29m ago
Ok but this title is literally fake news.
input_sh•17m ago
Feel free to suggest a better one that can fit into 80 characters!
gethly•51m ago
Too late. Trust is gone.
globalnode•33m ago
Not trusting should be you're default stance. Then you can be pleasantly surprised when they do the right thing.
tjpnz•48m ago
Is this the same Peter Thiel who gives lectures on Greta Thunberg being the literal anti-christ?
hnhg•39m ago
The same one with close ties to Epstein
delaminator•27m ago
Do you just read the headlines because that isn't what he said.

He said that people like Greta are legionnaires of the Antichrist. Which is not "Greta is the literal anti-christ".

Do you have any idea of the context of what the whole point was? If not, perhaps you should find out before you talk rubbish.

Do you know what he means by "Antichrist" or are you taking the least generous interpretation you can because you don't like the man.

ThatMedicIsASpy•10m ago
You are seeing quotes where there are none.

Every billionaire has massive mental health issues.

konradb•8m ago
Maybe you can help me out, I listened to him talk about this and I couldn't make head-nor-tail of what he was trying to say. It feels like he's so tied up in concepts and metaphors and similes and allegories it's impossible to tell specifically what he is asserting to be true. If you could explain to me like I was five I'd be grateful. Not looking for an argument.
mvdtnz•26m ago
Not sure why you're being down voted but the answer is yes, it is the same Peter Thiel who gives lectures on Greta Thunberg being the literal anti-christ and if the down voters think you might be exaggerating or misleading them I encourage them to search this up.

Edit - I searched to refresh myself, ok he didn't say she was the literal antichrist. He said she's literally a legionnaire for the literal antichrist. I cannot stress enough that he was very clear that he was not using these terms figuratively, I mean "literal" in the literal sense of the term.

PostOnce•47m ago
I very hesitantly used discord occasionally because some projects I wanted to keep up with moved there

I gave up a few times since I kept getting autobanned by a broken algorithm (i.e., based on my ip or phone number, not anything I'd said) until I contacted their devs and they manually fixed it.

Obviously, I am never going to consider using discord again after this shit-tsunami. Back to irc and signal groups.

rockskon•30m ago
"Discord Distances itself from Peter Thiel's Palantir Age Verification Firm" means jack shit if they're still doing business with them.

And Discord has approached this in such a monstrously awful way that I don't know what they could possibly say at this point to make me believe them.

I fully expect Discord will buddy-buddy right back up with some other Thiel-affiliated company if there is a separation if not go right back to them once the heat dies down.

OutOfHere•15m ago
The risk in effect is that every message sent on Discord will make its way to Palantir with copy of your ID. This is not a risk that any user should accept. Discord fooled its users once, and it should not be trusted to not fool them again.

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