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Discord walks back age verification fears for most users (www.techbuzz.ai)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Too late assholes... I'm already deleting most of the posts I made on my discord and I will be migrating elsewhere soon.

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[–] 157 points 9 months ago* (3 children)

This is misleading. Discord is not reversing course. It was in their original announcement that they would try to automatically determine everyone’s age and “most” people won’t need to do any sort of verification. A lot of people and journalists didn’t read that far apparently.

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  • [–] 26 points 9 months ago

    Yes, they aren't changing course, but Discord certainly did not say "most" in the announcement and it was a single sentence in a long article about age verification and content gating. They should have been far more upfront about their inference method being the primary one in the first place. This was a communication issue and not a reader issue.

    It's also possible they decided to tune their inference model to be a lot more, let's say, permissive so that there isn't a huge backlash of people getting asked to provide ID when they've been using the service for nearly a decade or longer.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    What you mean there clear and comprehensive announcement? Yeah that didn't happen, this is on them.

    They still haven't really provided any information. They say most users won't have to verify, how many is "most".

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