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Discord’s Second Attempt To Roll Out Age Verification Is Going Badly
kotaku.com/discords-second-attempt-to-roll-out-age-verification-is-going-badly-2000737908Replying to @inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world
Part of me thinks is this just performative nonsense that will always have enormous holes in it, like Prohibition.
Scanning “your” face to prove your age is really just scanning a face.
But I also worry about successive noose tightening.
Replying to @schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
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!
Replying to @feral_sh@lemmy.today
People using Discord badly are very unlikely to kill random bystanders.
Replying to @DigDoug@lemmy.world
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!
Replying to @feral_sh@lemmy.today
“The government”, because only the US exists and matters…
Replying to @M137@lemmy.today
Ah so europe is under anarchy, that explains so much i never knew that!
Replying to @M137@lemmy.today
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.