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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

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Ok but this title is literally fake news.

Feel free to suggest a better one that can fit into 80 characters!

"Discord Distances Itself From Age Verification Firm After Palantir ties"?

Re: Discord distances from age verification firm after ties to Peter Thiel surface

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Is this the same Peter Thiel who gives lectures on Greta Thunberg being the literal anti-christ?

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 ca…

Yeah, he definitely has gone off the rails lately with all the talk about the antichrist being a literal existing being with emissaries on earth. I haven't been watching his stuff but the little I've seen was unhinged.

Re: Discord distances from age verification firm after ties to Peter Thiel surface

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Is this the same Peter Thiel who gives lectures on Greta Thunberg being the literal anti-christ?

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If someone is saying that there are literal actuql existing legionnaires of the literal actual existing antichrist, and X person is one of them, it's not the "X person is one of them" part that I have an issue with.

Re: Discord distances from age verification firm after ties to Peter Thiel surface

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ca…

Yeah, he definitely has gone off the rails lately with all the talk about the antichrist being a literal existing being with emissaries on earth. I haven't been watching his stuff but the little I've seen was unhinged.

Lately?

"I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible." 2009

He is just executing on this, and some of religious technocratic nonsense beliefs just leaked a bit.

Re: Discord distances from age verification firm after ties to Peter Thiel surface

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Is this the same Peter Thiel who gives lectures on Greta Thunberg being the literal anti-christ?

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 ca…

"yes I'm right. Not sure why you are being downvoted. Do your own research"

Does research and now admits that he wasn't right, and understands why he and others were being down voted and hopefully learns from this and moves on.

Kudos for the edit and honesty: it's rare to see learning actually happen in fiery threads! I've been in your shoes and learning and change is possible.

Re: Discord distances from age verification firm after ties to Peter Thiel surface

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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-...

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 t…

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

People have already validated this fyi. When k-ID was first added you could send a bogus age result to discord from your local device, which probably still works. There's no evidence your facial scans leave the device.

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

Which isn't true, it was a UK-only experiment being run for a small subset of users, which has now been discontinued.

I get people are outraged, but this is sensationalism at best.

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