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Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder

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Re: Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder

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The age verification is pushed (lobbied) by the same companies which collect data: Palantir, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Apple and others.

How do you think EU and UK came to this idea ? Google was pushing it from some time but they needed a "legal framework".

In the future they will not need your phone anymore for border or house searches.

Re: Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You must be new the internet was toxic before their was an internet. I've seen BBS fights where people would find out where someone lived and shoot up the place, set it on fire or attack another person. Some BBS scenes attracted some shady characters.

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Re: Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder

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Matrix/Element seems the best drop-in replacement for Discord. Can set up chatrooms in Discord "server"-style, or as persistent DMs with others. In the chatrooms, you can make text chat spaces and call spaces. No dedicated voice chat space, you just dont turn on webcam for the call spaces. Pretty sure it uses same voip tech. Selfhostable if you want. Encrypted. Really it is just a barebones but functional Discord. Ma…

Stoat, Zulip, and Mattermost are other options. Element was a bit too raw for me - mobile wasn’t great either. Ymmv

For mobile, you can use FluffyChat, it's another Matrix app

Re: Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder

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Because grima wormtongue the prediction engine whispers of horrors to come in the kings ears? Take the catastrophic eain flashfloods. They have ramped up hard recently.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/10/german-v...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/237420/economic-damage-c...

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/one-de...

And then there was the morroco, greek and italian floods.

Its expected to hit mountanous areas the hardest, devaluing cities in valleys like they are in a warzone. And this is the smallest, obvious event series kept on the downlow, because society already falls apart, loosing its structure.

The panopticon is a desperate attempt to controll the only thing controllable in situations to come.

Re: Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder

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post #14

Yes, and? This sounds like a guilt-by-association accusation with no relevance. Anyway, people are free not to use Discord if they don't like their age verification feature. It is one chat service amongst many, not a monopoly.

We need to hold people to account for the company they keep. If your largest investor is known for mining data for fascist regimes and you are in the business of verifying data authentication then it not guilt by association it is the smoking gun and best to avoid

Re: Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder

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post #14

Yes, and? This sounds like a guilt-by-association accusation with no relevance. Anyway, people are free not to use Discord if they don't like their age verification feature. It is one chat service amongst many, not a monopoly.

the vast majority of the rich got to their position thru sheer ruthlessness. is it irrational to you that this garners distrust ?

Re: Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder

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post #9

Matrix/Element seems the best drop-in replacement for Discord. Can set up chatrooms in Discord "server"-style, or as persistent DMs with others. In the chatrooms, you can make text chat spaces and call spaces. No dedicated voice chat space, you just dont turn on webcam for the call spaces. Pretty sure it uses same voip tech. Selfhostable if you want. Encrypted. Really it is just a barebones but functional Discord. Ma…

Stoat, Zulip, and Mattermost are other options. Element was a bit too raw for me - mobile wasn’t great either. Ymmv

Zulip is definitely not an alternative to discord but I'll check out the others.

Re: Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder

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post #14

Yes, and? This sounds like a guilt-by-association accusation with no relevance. Anyway, people are free not to use Discord if they don't like their age verification feature. It is one chat service amongst many, not a monopoly.

"You're free to use something else" doesn't work when it was legal pressure that introduced age verification. All the something else's will eventually be forced to follow.
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