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Discord is about to require age verification for everyone (www.gamingonlinux.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[–] 21 points 9 months ago (16 children)

It's for everyone who wants to access adult content or get messages from people they might not know, according to their release.

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  • [–] 30 points 9 months ago

    Discord's filters are kind of infamously bad about what they detect as "adult content." I, for one, will not be supplying an ID to anyone. They've already given me several compelling reasons not to to give them money, but it seems that this one finally pushed me over the edge.

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  • [+] 18 points 9 months ago (3 children)
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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    So, if I am not looking for adult content, and could not care less about getting PMs from people I don't know, I don't need to sub to this privacy nightmare?

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Which includes many of the wargaming, traditional art, and queer Discord servers my partner and I use. Never assume that when a bad actor says “adult content” they mean hardcore porn and snuff, they mean everything that doesn’t conform to their ideal christofascist ethnostate purity. And now they have a list of all the “dangerous” nonconformists while blocking everyone else from being exposed to “dangerous” ideas. This should chill people to the bone. Nobody should be okay with this anywhere, in any capacity, in any quantity, whatsoever.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago

    Isn't it only servers/channels marked as NSFW? If you don't mark it as NSFW then it shouldn't make any different to how it is now.

    Also it just detects things it can read. Stick it in a file format discord doesn't understand, or link to an external site.

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  • [–] -4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    This should chill people to the bone.

    Whenever I read this idiom, I am reminded how many folks do not advance their psychology & neurological studies. A realistic idiom that is very true:

    you can lead a horse to water, but

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    Healthcare workers were prioritized for vaccination, locking them into the narrative early. Once you’ve taken the shot and pushed it on patients, your identity – professional judgment, ethics, self-image as a healer – hinges on its safety. The cost of admitting error becomes psychologically prohibitive.

    What the fuck did you link.

    [edit] So, if you follow links to Joshua Stylman's substack, you can find this:

    Maybe it's my algorithm, but the content was flooded with an unusual amount of vitriol directed at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination as HHS Secretary. [...] talking heads across networks uniformly labeling him a "conspiracy theorist" and "danger to public health," never once addressing his actual positions.

    Honestly, I don't even know why I'm wasting my time on this. It's just funny, I guess.

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