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this is true.. its not just Discord.. politics are pushing hard on tech.. like Facebook, Google, well everything basically.. They want to push age verification everywhere.
Its really dangerous, and I will never comply (even though I have nothing to hide). I already deleted my discord. I will not join back anymore. Its too late already.
Each chat, social network or anything that is trying to implement this -> ACCOUNT DELETED.
Edit: Discord's preparation to go public with an IPO.. So go away from discord now.
They don't actually care about age verification, they just want the personal information.
They are trying to set up identifying every account to a name and face to have their computers record everything, from their footage on the streets, cctv of you in your car, in stores, over traffic lights, to every website you visit, every word you read, every word you write, and so forth and run it through AI threat detection/social scores. It's new tech that is coming online and they are trying to surrender us to it, to bring this trojan horse behind the walls of liberal democracy. To let Palantir and like companies to decide winners and losers, what jobs you can get, loans, what search engines will even show you, what prices you are charged, how the government treats you, how businesses treat you, etc. All in a way not attributed to it, that you can never know and never challenge.
What I'm saying isn't that you should or shouldn't delete social media accounts. What I'm saying is that eventually they're all going to HAVE to do it to be able to operate within certain countries. The account deletion/boycott/etc isn't enough, you have to go after the political leaders that are FORCING companies into these deals cause governments are GOING to continue to go after companies to force the whole of the internet into surveilling users. Policy and laws need to be changed. The work HAS to be done.
I just host my own open source instances. Like matrix for chat. And mbin for the fediverse. This is how I now communicate with you.
No age verification. Mbin will never implement it either. And matrix won't either. Otherwise I will fork matrix also.
Good for you, honestly. But not the point I'm trying to make at all.
Yea I got your point
You must never comply ESPECIALLY if you have nothing to hide. They are treating innocent people like terrorists and criminals and this is not acceptable.
I pray that the impetus from all this results in overturning all of the (allegedly) anti-terrorist legislation made post 9/11 (post 2000 in some cases).
I agree. I just mentioned it explicitly, since I was afraid of responses like.. Ow.. Do you hide something?
ahem... politics is NOT pushing on tech..
tech is pushing and telling politics what to do. tech controls politics now
Bullshit. There are plenty of examples of politics pushing on tech and tech pushing back. Tech may have its hands in politics' pocket, but they don't have a hand up their backside like you imply.
Well.. I dunno well.. I think both. I believe nobody wants to be responsible and they just point to each other 🤔
This is the way.