I will say that this has been in the works for a little bit now and it’s more related to the UK’s new laws. We’ve had this age verification stuff on Discord for some months now.
As for why it’s being rolled out globally, not sure. The UK is not the only country / state starting to ask for ages verification on “social media” so maybe they thought it would be easier to use the same approach everywhere? Seems like a bad idea though as everywhere it’s implemented it’s unpopular.
My experience with it so far has been that… well… It hasn’t affected me at all. Mostly because I only use friends servers and activism servers. Those aren’t age restricted, so you never hit this check.
As far as age verification law compliance / implementation goes, this is not the worst one. That data leak early on was a clown show though.
It’s excusable for the UK but we’re talking globally now. There’s no legitimate reason to push this globally besides Discord wanting to ID all their users.
Of course. It’s not like I want this. I was out there messaging my MP when the UK law had just been pushed through and filling out the petitions. It didn’t help though.
You can send a message to Discord by leaving, but they won’t revert it for places where it’s legally required.
I will say that this has been in the works for a little bit now and it’s more related to the UK’s new laws. We’ve had this age verification stuff on Discord for some months now.
As for why it’s being rolled out globally, not sure. The UK is not the only country / state starting to ask for ages verification on “social media” so maybe they thought it would be easier to use the same approach everywhere? Seems like a bad idea though as everywhere it’s implemented it’s unpopular.
My experience with it so far has been that… well… It hasn’t affected me at all. Mostly because I only use friends servers and activism servers. Those aren’t age restricted, so you never hit this check.
As far as age verification law compliance / implementation goes, this is not the worst one. That data leak early on was a clown show though.
It’s excusable for the UK but we’re talking globally now. There’s no legitimate reason to push this globally besides Discord wanting to ID all their users.
Das sind die Regeln, alright then. Cool
Glad it hasn’t affected you (yet).
As if there’s a book called How To Sleepwalk Into Fascism and half of us stopped reading before the chapter on The Consequences.
Of course. It’s not like I want this. I was out there messaging my MP when the UK law had just been pushed through and filling out the petitions. It didn’t help though.
You can send a message to Discord by leaving, but they won’t revert it for places where it’s legally required.