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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 dijit »

sgarman wrote: post #525
tabbott wrote: post #430

I'm biased, as I lead the Zulip project. But I think this is a reasonable place for me to post some thoughts. Given current events in the USA, I can't emphasize enough how worried one should be about the fact that a few companies like Discord, Google (Gmail), and Meta have databases with access to the private conversations of hundreds of millions of people with their closest friends and family members, linked up with…

My biggest feature use of Discord is the drop in / out voice with PTT. I couldn't quite tell if this feature exist.

Doesn’t exist in Zulip, theres a “camera” button that generates a jitsi link, I tried (and failed) to make it a google meet link, but it works surprisingly well, though it is a context switch.

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

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Post by ncr100 »

RupertSalt wrote: post #14
kmeisthax wrote: post #11

Any age verification process that does not consider the age of the account as a verification option is a data trap, plain and simple.

How does anyone know whether a family is engaging in that time-honored tradition of passing down accounts from grandfather, to father, to son, to child, and their posterity, in perpetuity? Seriously though, unless you have positively identified the person who created the account in the first place, you have 0% chance of knowing whether it is the same person using it today. Gamers sell their high-level accounts all th…

So then it's REASONABLY not the corporation's fault if that user sees explicit content.

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

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Post by crabmusket »

easterncalculus wrote: post #478
tabbott wrote: post #430

I'm biased, as I lead the Zulip project. But I think this is a reasonable place for me to post some thoughts. Given current events in the USA, I can't emphasize enough how worried one should be about the fact that a few companies like Discord, Google (Gmail), and Meta have databases with access to the private conversations of hundreds of millions of people with their closest friends and family members, linked up with…

What is the video calling and screen share experience like?

Zulip "shells out" to other apps like Zoom or Jitsi for this with a light integration in the UI.

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

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Post by pixelatedindex »

dijit wrote: post #528
tabbott wrote: post #430

I'm biased, as I lead the Zulip project. But I think this is a reasonable place for me to post some thoughts. Given current events in the USA, I can't emphasize enough how worried one should be about the fact that a few companies like Discord, Google (Gmail), and Meta have databases with access to the private conversations of hundreds of millions of people with their closest friends and family members, linked up with…

Hey, just wanted to say that I am a happy Zulip customer. I used it at my previous employer and after a month of hangringing from people- many did not desire to go back to what we had before. (though some people did say they wanted Slack for the emojis and “prettiness”). Now I started in a new position and I’ve positioned Zulip (on prem) as the only viable solution since we’re shirking SaaS as a strategic move. The p…

> hangringing

I’m sorry to be that guy but it’s “handwringing” - twisting your hand like you wring your clothes until you agree

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

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Post by MarsIronPI »

snohobro wrote: post #253
cheschire wrote: post #228

I deleted my Facebook account in 2011. After finding out how much critical neighborhood information I have been missing, I finally registered a new Facebook account fifteen years later to follow my neighborhood groups. A month later, the account was suspended for supposedly breaking guidelines. I never posted a single message, never reacted to any posts. They then required me to upload a video scan of my face to prov…

Ironically, this may be one of the many straws that breaks the proverbial internet camel’s back. We all wax and wane about the old internet, the pre-homogenized, non-corporate, Wild West internet. Perhaps these constant restrictions will finally spur us to create our own spaces again Our own little groups that exist independent of the corpo-sphere. The only reason ‘the way things used to be’ went away was because the…

> Perhaps these constant restrictions will finally spur us to create our own spaces again Our own little groups that exist independent of the corpo-sphere.

The normies already did this. They just did it on centralized platforms like Discord. Until their backs get broken we're not getting anywhere. (Although I may be being a little too cynical.)

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

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Post by qrobit »

btown wrote: post #476

> The first option uses AI to analyze a user’s video selfie, which Discord says never leaves the user’s device. If the age group estimate (teen or adult) from the selfie is incorrect, users can appeal it or verify with a photo of an identity document instead. Are they shipping a video classifier model that can run on all the devices that can run Discord, including web? I've never heard of this being done at scale ful…

It will be easy to check with devtools when the update is released
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