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Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel-backed verification software after its code was found tied to US surveillance efforts (fortune.com)
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Discord cut ties with its age-verification partner after exposed code fueled federal-reporting concerns, months after a breach hit 70,000 users.

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[โ€“] Lfrith@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I noticed articles and social media topics are going really aggressive with we need to ban social media because it's bad for kids, and bunch of comments advocating for verification. Which of course would mean what discord is attempting to do with IDs and face scans.

Which is so bizzare seeing the backlash to discord by real people, but then non discord related topics all pro about verification.

[โ€“] NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 hours ago

Almost like there's a push from powerful people to get this passed as soon as possible