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Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona

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Re: Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona

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Post by SilverElfin »

rideontime wrote: post #20

I'm glad to see "Peter Thiel-backed" becoming a widely-recognized epithet.

Everyone needs to cut ties with those companies. Not just with Persona but any service linked to Peter Thiel, Joe Lonsdale, Palmer Luckey, Elon Musk, David Sacks, etc. The entire MAGA cultist ecosystem.

Unfortunately there will be companies that take their money and won’t care. It’ll be up to other companies and consumers to punish them for it. Maybe we need a website that lets you quickly check if you should or shouldn’t use some service based on the investors.

Re: Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona

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Post by SilverElfin »

pphysch wrote: post #36
metalliqaz wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it is truly amazing how much damage one person is able to do to civilized society if you expand the scope to a handful of adjacent figures, the catastrophe is truly amazing

Thiel is one of the more public faces of what is now known as the "Epstein class" of societal predators. But one of many and certainly not the epicenter.

Yep Epstein class. It’s a great phrase for the billionaire elites who have corrupted our society through their wealth. We need heavy taxes on them now to preserve our democracy.

And also, Thiel is literally in the Epstein files. Meeting with Russian officials repeatedly on the island. One is said to be his handler so he may just be an asset tasked with destabilizing America.

Re: Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona

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Post by dcchambers »

rocketpastsix wrote: post #44

the damage is already done though. Discord just burned years of goodwill and trust. Im in a few discord communities and while they aren't moving Im not looking to join any more right now because of this whole thing.

Discord is a cancer on the open internet anyway.

Real time chat? Great. But entire communities, forums, and wikis moving behind the locked walled of Discord has been a disaster for information discovery.

Don't replace Discord with a similar alternative. Return to open forums and wikis!

Re: Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona

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Post by timacles »

jordanb wrote: post #49
throw4847285 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess we could all forgive trying to destroy western civilization under the guise of saving it, but drew the line at poor media literacy when it comes to One Piece and Watchmen. (This is a joke in case that wasn't clear)

It was always difficult to get normal people to understand why the tech billionaires are so bad until Thiel gave us that clip of him getting stumped by the "should humanity survive" question. I'm forever grateful to Thiel for that clip, and to Musk for his crippling Twitter addiction. It was pretty impossible to get regular people to understand that folks like Bill Gates or Larry Ellison are skinwalkers when all they…

A lot of the older folks are also not well versed in their language or whatever you want to call it, so they can’t even connect comprehend these guys are compulsive liars and paranoid man children with no scruples.

They just think they are eccentric and by the virtue of their wealth they must be smart upstanding humans with a strong character.

Re: Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona

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Post by timacles »

pphysch wrote: post #36
metalliqaz wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it is truly amazing how much damage one person is able to do to civilized society if you expand the scope to a handful of adjacent figures, the catastrophe is truly amazing

Thiel is one of the more public faces of what is now known as the "Epstein class" of societal predators. But one of many and certainly not the epicenter.

There is certainly a shadow cabal of these elite billionaire types that avoid all public exposure yet are working very hard to destroy society and profit

Re: Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona

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Post by pram »

harrisoned wrote: post #28
mikkupikku wrote: post #16

For some reason, discord has never asked more from me than a verified email address. No phone number or anything else. Maybe I'm being monitored and they don't want to spook me off the honeypot? Half joking..

Same for me, and my account is almost a decade old. I think it depends a lot where are you from and the kind of activity, as i read stories of people being asked to register a number out of nowhere. Many servers requires you to have it tho, due to spam protection. I just don't talk on those.

It’s tragic but I have the “verified” setting turned on my public server because it’s literally impossible to stop a determined spammer with the tools Discord has. They can make new accounts faster than you can ban them, and there’s no like “IP ban” equivalent

Re: Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona

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Post by embedding-shape »

crimsoneer wrote: post #27
embedding-shape wrote: post #2

Ah man, just tried to submit this with the title "Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel-backed SaaS once code tied to US spying found" which is slightly better I think, and fits exactly within 80 characters :) I think the whole "after its code was found tied to U.S. surveillance efforts" part is new and wasn't known before, so feels important to have in the title too. Although most of us probably assumed it was true bef…

Is this actually a thing that is true?

I don't think HN titles are judged by "is it true?" but rather how close the submission title is to the original title and otherwise represents the content of the submission.

Re: Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona

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Post by jordanb »

timacles wrote: post #55
jordanb wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was always difficult to get normal people to understand why the tech billionaires are so bad until Thiel gave us that clip of him getting stumped by the "should humanity survive" question. I'm forever grateful to Thiel for that clip, and to Musk for his crippling Twitter addiction. It was pretty impossible to get regular people to understand that folks like Bill Gates or Larry Ellison are skinwalkers when all they…

A lot of the older folks are also not well versed in their language or whatever you want to call it, so they can’t even connect comprehend these guys are compulsive liars and paranoid man children with no scruples. They just think they are eccentric and by the virtue of their wealth they must be smart upstanding humans with a strong character.

Yeah but I'd argue that the eccentric billionaire trope itself is the creation of the PR industry. "We've got this guy with rancid vibes, how do we make him palatable?"
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