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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.
Which includes many of the wargaming, traditional art, and queer Discord servers my partner and I use. Never assume that when a bad actor says “adult content” they mean hardcore porn and snuff, they mean everything that doesn’t conform to their ideal christofascist ethnostate purity. And now they have a list of all the “dangerous” nonconformists while blocking everyone else from being exposed to “dangerous” ideas. This should chill people to the bone. Nobody should be okay with this anywhere, in any capacity, in any quantity, whatsoever.
Isn't it only servers/channels marked as NSFW? If you don't mark it as NSFW then it shouldn't make any different to how it is now.
Also it just detects things it can read. Stick it in a file format discord doesn't understand, or link to an external site.
Even if it is hardcore porn, that still doesn't mean I'm going to give them an ID/pictures to verify who I am just so I can see the art people draw of ███████████████.
Whenever I read this idiom, I am reminded how many folks do not advance their psychology & neurological studies. A realistic idiom that is very true:
What the fuck did you link.
[edit] So, if you follow links to Joshua Stylman's substack, you can find this:
Honestly, I don't even know why I'm wasting my time on this. It's just funny, I guess.
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.
And the "stone the gays" people are the ones who get to decide what is and isn't adult content
Charlie kirk getting his neck exploded wasn't considered adult content by discord when I tried it.
Who doesnt love getting spearphisted by all these random girls on discord that send friend requests without ever talking to you?!
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.
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."
Bro leave all my discord girlfriends out of this
So, if I am not looking for adult content, and could not care less about getting PMs from people I don't know, I don't need to sub to this privacy nightmare?
Discord is still a privacy nightmare regardless, but at least they won't require your ID by default.
https://piefed.social/c/technology/p/1759163/discord-faces-backlash-over-age-checks-after-data-breach-exposed-70000-ids
Already leaked 70k IDs
That's the way I read it