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Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

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Re: Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

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Post by idiotsecant »

x0x0 wrote: post #190
throwatdem12311 wrote: post #102

You’re out of your mind if you think I’m gonna upload ID to use a “shitposting about video games with friends” service.

I think Discord is trapped in an ugly place: 1 - Piles of parents too stupid or lazy to, well, parent the children they made; 2 - A very reasonable societal expectation that it shouldn't be easy for young kids to access, or even be exposed, to the worst dregs of the internet; 3 - Very different use cases (gaming, kids stuff, free/affordable slack for communities) all on the same platform; 4 - A pile of morons in legi…

How reasonable is this expectation? All you do by intituting these draconian 'wont someone please think of the children' ID laws is make it marginally more difficult to access mainstream services where there's not much crazy bad stuff anyway. The rest of the internet is the wild west, and good luck controlling that.

The whole thing is security theater designed to conceal the fact that child security is not the objective, it's the justification.

Re: Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

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Post by keithnz »

lot of people complaining, but, seems like they rolled it out already in UK and Australia... no real complaints I know of, and I'm in NZ and are on NZ/Aussie discords. Also teen mode doesn't actually seem that restrictive. Seems an ok move to me. But for whatever reason people seem to froth at the mouth when it comes to discord on here.

Re: Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

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Post by ActorNightly »

throwatdem12311 wrote: post #102

You’re out of your mind if you think I’m gonna upload ID to use a “shitposting about video games with friends” service.

All social media websites should require id tbh. This is the new public town square - everyone should have a voice, but nobody should escape the consequences of using that voice to peddle bullshit.

Re: Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

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Post by vkou »

bitbytebane wrote: post #202

Discord has always been IRC with extra censorship and spying. Nothing really new, here. Just use IRC.

If you can't think of good reasons for why someone might use discord over IRC, you probably haven't thought about this enough.

Re: Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

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Post by rwmj »

keithnz wrote: post #203

lot of people complaining, but, seems like they rolled it out already in UK and Australia... no real complaints I know of, and I'm in NZ and are on NZ/Aussie discords. Also teen mode doesn't actually seem that restrictive. Seems an ok move to me. But for whatever reason people seem to froth at the mouth when it comes to discord on here.

I have a discord account that I use very rarely, and just tried it (from the UK) and it didn't ask me for any ID or face scan. If they do start doing that, I'll simply stop using the service.

Re: Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

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Post by squeegmeister »

rsynnott wrote: post #141

It's kind of surprising that no-one has really come out with a proper privacy-preserving approach to this yet. It is clearly _possible_; there are reasonable-looking designs for this. But no-one's doing it; they're just collecting photos and IDs, and then leaking them all over the place.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/06/apple-expands-tools-t...

What are your thoughts on Apple's approach? You still have to provide your birthdate to apple. But after that, it only only ever shares your age range with other companies that request it, not your birthdate.

Re: Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

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Post by ilikepi »

bramhaag wrote: post #20

What realistic open source alternatives to Discord are there? I'm currently considering moving to one of these with my friend group: - Matrix - Stoat, previously revolt ( https://stoat.chat/ ) - IRC + Mumble - Signal

This seems like a nice breakdown of some options:

https://taggart-tech.com/discord-alternatives/

(Not affiliated)

Re: Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

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Post by pibaker »

It is a great irony that the heavy handed push for "protect da kids" is all happening while we learn, day by day, that the richest and most powerful members of our society have no problem hanging out with a convicted child sex trafficker.

Rules for thee, free love for me.

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