Discord to require age verification

[Cmaier]

Discord Is About to Force You to Prove Your Age

Discord is rolling out global age verification starting in March. Here's how to make sure you don't lose any features.

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You’ll have to scan your face or ID or something. I dunno. People seem very upset about this. I don’t use discord but I know many of you do. So here’s a place to discuss if you’d like.

 

[Eric]

Discord Is About to Force You to Prove Your Age

Discord is rolling out global age verification starting in March. Here's how to make sure you don't lose any features.

lifehacker.com

You’ll have to scan your face or ID or something. I dunno. People seem very upset about this. I don’t use discord but I know many of you do. So here’s a place to discuss if you’d like.

Yeah I don't either but you have to wonder what led up to this.

 

[Nycturne]

Yeah I don't either but you have to wonder what led up to this.

This was a regional requirement (UK and maybe Australia) that was put into law a while back. They are rolling it out globally because lowest common denominator.

It's also what state legislatures have been hoping for by passing similar age verification requirements at the state level. Companies will simply comply with the strictest state requirement, and it becomes a de facto national requirement without the federal government getting involved, and over the objections of states that don't support such strict requirements.

So yeah, I do have a problem with precedent such as this.