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alessandro ( alessandro@lemmy.ca )  to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 months ago

Discord is about to require age verification for everyone

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Discord is about to require age verification for everyone

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alessandro ( alessandro@lemmy.ca )  to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 months ago
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Discord have announced that beginning in March, they're starting a global rollout of forced age verification to access all features of the platform.
  • AFK BRB Chocolate (CA version) ( AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca ) 
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    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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      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.

    • Fluffy Kitty Cat ( fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ) 
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      And the “stone the gays” people are the ones who get to decide what is and isn’t adult content

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        Charlie kirk getting his neck exploded wasn’t considered adult content by discord when I tried it.

    • YesButActuallyMaybe ( YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca ) 
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      Who doesnt love getting spearphisted by all these random girls on discord that send friend requests without ever talking to you?!

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        Don’t worry, this will still happen, they’ll just use stolen IDs from previous fishing victims, or from the database of 70,000 that Discord already had breached.

      • AFK BRB Chocolate (CA version) ( AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca ) 
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        Yeah, it’s the part of this that seems like a benefit. “Oh, sorry, I didn’t verify my age so I can’t get spammed by direct message.”

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        Bro leave all my discord girlfriends out of this

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