Part of me agrees and the other part thinks it’s going to go the way of the automobile.

Everyone needs a license, issued from big brother, to use the public service.

Or else!

People using Discord badly are very unlikely to kill random bystanders.

We could go back and forth all day on this, but just watch out for the government trying to claim “you need an ID for this because the anonymous people online can hurt you”.

They’ll find a way to justify it, by some string of twisted logic that makes it equivalent to killing someone in an accident.

It’ll probably be about protecting the kids, it’s always about protecting the kids. Oh well I think we’re on the same side here. I joined the EFF!

“The government”, because only the US exists and matters…

Ah so europe is under anarchy, that explains so much i never knew that!

It’s even worse here in the EU, which plans to completely ban entire websites if you don’t submit a police ID. So yeah, the government. It’s been happening everywhere.

But they might see something a Christian might not like, which is worse to some people

Very likely to leak military vehicle and aircraft documents though

Nah. They want to be an essential service for games.
Verified users of appropriate age.
Integrated game chat.
Integrated game VoIP.
All appropriate-for-age.

Can’t develop your own moderation? Just pay discord.

So many companies will pay massive sums to outsource chat/VoIP/age-verification/moderation to discord.
And discord is already the “goto” gaming community provider.

Oh, and shop stuff.
Gift (buy) a friend a cool cosmetic through discord. Already has the community connections. Just needs the reason for games to tightly integrate it (moderation, chat, VoIP, age verification).

It is absolutely a positioning move

Forums were also outsourced to reddit. Riot did it with league of legends. Why moderate a forum when you have unpaid reddit mods doing it for you?