I think the whole reason is not “verify you are an adult”. It’s for anti-bot. Bots are too good nowadays. It’s indistinguishable at scale. And bots are bad for advertisers.

Peertube is implementing streaming!

The person on Bluesky mentioned they are Canadian :\

What power does an affiliate have to protest this?

Have you ever heard the saying "don't bite the hand that feeds you." If you are a full time streamer it is literally the hand that feeds them. The streamers are in it for the ride. For every "lolz fuck you i got mine" there are 1000 streamers just making content.

You need to fill tax info and everything, which is a very good reason to not need ID because your tax number should be identifying already. I guess they want to combat fraud, but this still seems like a complete overreach.

If Persona or Palantir were not involved it would be more likely to not be surveillance state shit. But this is obviously not the case. If they wanted to do actually id verification they would use banks or pay a government service. What people are not getting is that in this exchange, you are the product. Palantir was paying Discord to gather our data to track us and sell our data to Palantir's main client. They backed down because it is more profitable to keep all their customers than integrate with Palantir to sell our data and lose x amount of customers.