An update on how we confirm your age group on Discord

rustcleaner•26 minutes ago

IRC plus GNU Jami are still freedom respecting zones! I sincerely hope all this age verification crap causes cypherpunk FOSS solutions to grow in popularity.

shaoonb•about 1 hour ago

Still required to use a video or ID card in the UK.

axus•44 minutes ago

There was a brief window where you could submit fake biometrics through a third-party site to verify age on Discord, pretty sure I got the link from hackernews.

That made me feel better that Discord didn't need to store my ID or video of my face, and was only storing the results of some analysis and not the inputs.

Foskya•about 2 hours ago

I actually like their implementation. I'm curious if it will be enough for governments, but it is nice that they are trying to persue a path without id checks

dsr_•36 minutes ago

All the available paths turn into:

- give us your ID

- give us your biometrics

- give somebody, not necessarily Discord, a valid credit card

That's sll of the paths.

aDyslecticCrow•5 minutes ago

This proposed solution does however allow quite liberal access to discord without confirming the age. If the implementation is as worded; then i would not see a reason to confirm my age at all.

The issue comes down to if governments accept such a (urgh) comparatively lax implementation. It's pretty clear to me that the primary purpose of these laws are entirely to... force all citizens to identify themselves across the internet for the purpose of profile building, and nothing to do with child safety.

So as implementations go; this one is pretty decent. We should stop governments from passing these darn laws though.

nemomarx•24 minutes ago

If the account age estimation puts you in adult, it sounds like you don't need to do any of those?

I'd like to see details about their model there, but account age is at least better than a lot of systems like steam are doing for this.

wging•5 minutes ago

Some of those details are available here: https://discord.com/safety/how-discord-estimates-age-without...

EmbarrassedHelp•about 1 hour ago

They should not be trying to implement it globally. That is unacceptable.

esafak•about 1 hour ago

I like that the dialog indicates the service provider. Thumbs up for transparency.

peri-cl•36 minutes ago

> "Rather than waiting to be told how to do it, we’re launching our own..."

Translation: we've found an excuse to hold our captive users hostage for their monetizable personal information, and we're leaping at the opportunity. Nothing obligates us to demand this data, but we deeply covet it.

> "We're launching this over the course of this week, so it may take a few days to..."

Translation: we'd like to limit the PR impact of our hostile acts by staggering them temporally, so that our users can't effectively coordinate social media protests.

An update on how we confirm your age group on Discord

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