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

[RetCurious]

Beginning in March, all accounts will have a ‘teen-appropriate experience by default.’

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

Age verification for all.

www.theverge.com

 

[Ted R]

Beginning in March, all accounts will have a ‘teen-appropriate experience by default.’

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

Age verification for all.

www.theverge.com

Bye Discord.

 

[PunkN]

Bye Discord.

Yeah. They can kick rocks!

 

[Chili777]

Discord has increasingly little value to me. They are just a headache. Everything it offers can be done on TG, Whatsapp, or elsewhere for I need, and that's probably how they want it.

 

[Nmcoyote1]

I will have to wait and see what people that are better informed then me think. I do not want the government possibly being able to get this info in the future. Do I really want then more easily tracking my grey peptide purchases? What if they decide to crack down on the future?

 

[Chili777]

I will have to wait and see what people that are better informed then me think. I do not want the government possibly being able to get this info in the future. Do I really want then more easily tracking my grey peptide purchases? What if they decide to crack down on the future?

They are saying the pic or clip never leaves your device and is only for age verification. That's if you believe them.

 

[indolent]

I'm not particularly concerned about the government (which I can't imagine is explicitly requiring this of Discord).

A platform which is entirely about sharing information, ideas and opinions has no business whatsoever verifying age, beyond maybe agreeing to Terms of Service.

 

[DjJoshua]

If they scan my ugly face it will crash the servers again !!

 

[Chili777]

I'm not particularly concerned about the government (which I can't imagine is explicitly requiring this of Discord).

A platform which is entirely about sharing information, ideas and opinions has no business whatsoever verifying age, beyond maybe agreeing to Terms of Service.

They are changing their policy to assume that everyone is a teenager because of issues they've had with predators in certain servers. So this is what they are now requiring, and anyone who doesn't verify will be assumed to be too young to do so.

 

[Ragnar]

They are changing their policy to assume that everyone is a teenager because of issues they've had with predators in certain servers. So this is what they are now requiring, and anyone who doesn't verify will be assumed to be too young to do so.

I can see the logic but unless they scan government issued ID then they won’t know age so this won’t completely eliminate teenagers.

 

[Ragnar]

I can see the logic but unless they scan government issued ID then they won’t know age so this won’t completely eliminate teenagers.

Nvm. I just read article and I guess you will have to show government ID. I don’t like that. I will be done with discord for gray. Don’t need the government tracking this.

 

[Chili777]

I can see the logic but unless they scan government issued ID then they won’t know age so this won’t completely eliminate teenagers.

That's what they're asking for, from what I read. Either a government form of ID or a video clip of you. Neither is foolproof.

 

[neo6488]

I guess the question would be do they care if we leave or not? I certainly wont be uploading my ID to get tied to my discord activity.

 

[GimmePep]

Beginning in March, all accounts will have a ‘teen-appropriate experience by default.’

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

Age verification for all.

www.theverge.com

“Direct messages and servers that are not age-restricted will continue to function normally.”

 

[indolent]

“Direct messages and servers that are not age-restricted will continue to function normally.”

That's a very good point, at least where grey is concerned. As best I can tell, Discord only considers sexual content to be adult-only ... as of now. But I could be wrong about that.

 

[Chili777]

That's a very good point, at least where grey is concerned. As best I can tell, Discord only considers sexual content to be adult-only ... as of now. But I could be wrong about that.

Not quite. This is what you will lose access to:

Discord To Require Age Verification By Face Scan Or ID Starting In March

Teen-by-default is coming to all Discord accounts in March

kotaku.com

 

[indolent]

Not quite. This is what you will lose access to:

Discord To Require Age Verification By Face Scan Or ID Starting In March

Teen-by-default is coming to all Discord accounts in March

kotaku.com

That article doesn't define what is non-teenage content. It implies that it's only pornographs. The inbox will be a little more confusing for non-verified, it sounds like.

On Discord's guidelines page, the only thing which might affect grey is

7. If you are under the age of 18, you may not engage in sexual conduct or any other conduct using Discord that puts your online or physical safety at risk. The only example given is vigilantism, leaving a very big (pun apology) grey zone for the definition of risk -- probably deliberately.

 

[randompersonrandom]

I miss the good old days of DALnet #mIRC where you could go into the #atheism channel and annoy Roddy_Madness with a group of your equally bored teenage friends by all making your handles R0ddy_Madness and Roddy_Madne$s or Roddy-Madness in a coordinated entry and all accuse every other Roddy_Madness of being impostors and beg the mods to "Shoot him, shoot HIM!" until RM got bored of our antics and banned us all by IP for an hour with the message "Go to your room and think about what you did."

 

[Ruckus4519]

I miss the good old days of DALnet #mIRC where you could go into the #atheism channel and annoy Roddy_Madness with a group of your equally bored teenage friends by all making your handles R0ddy_Madness and Roddy_Madne$s or Roddy-Madness in a coordinated entry and all accuse every other Roddy_Madness of being impostors and beg the mods to "Shoot him, shoot HIM!" until RM got bored of our antics and banned us all by IP for an hour with the message "Go to your room and think about what you did."

Looks like DAL net is still around actually.

I’ve hesitated on joining Discord because of all their privacy issues and have been casually looking for decentralized solutions.

So far I have at least two friends who seem interested in diving deeper into Matrix.

 

[dogmom]

I miss the good old days of DALnet #mIRC where you could go into the #atheism channel and annoy Roddy_Madness with a group of your equally bored teenage friends by all making your handles R0ddy_Madness and Roddy_Madne$s or Roddy-Madness in a coordinated entry and all accuse every other Roddy_Madness of being impostors and beg the mods to "Shoot him, shoot HIM!" until RM got bored of our antics and banned us all by IP for an hour with the message "Go to your room and think about what you did."

IRC is still around. I wonder why people don't chat about peps there. I would think that would be harder to shut down groups. I guess the issue though is everyone's IP is exposed.