Discord distances from age verification firm after ties to Peter Thiel surface
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Re: Discord distances from age verification firm after ties to Peter Thiel surface
#2Notably, 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-...
Re: Discord distances from age verification firm after ties to Peter Thiel surface
#3Notably, 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-...
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?"
Re: Discord distances from age verification firm after ties to Peter Thiel surface
#4Article 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.
Re: Discord distances from age verification firm after ties to Peter Thiel surface
#5Too late. Trust is gone.
Re: Discord distances from age verification firm after ties to Peter Thiel surface
#6Is this the same Peter Thiel who gives lectures on Greta Thunberg being the literal anti-christ?
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#7I 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.
Re: Discord distances from age verification firm after ties to Peter Thiel surface
#8Article 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.
That's too long of a title for a HN submission, i think.
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#9Is this the same Peter Thiel who gives lectures on Greta Thunberg being the literal anti-christ?
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Re: Discord distances from age verification firm after ties to Peter Thiel surface
#10Too late. Trust is gone.
Not trusting should be you're default stance. Then you can be pleasantly surprised when they do the right thing.