you better learn generative images ai, hexbears
linky to verge https://www.theverge.com/tech/875309/discord-age-verification-global-roll-out
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I don't know how most people use discord nowadays, but in my country it seems that whenever I see it being mentioned in the news it's because a group of teenagers did some horrible shit in a discord group and got arrested (or whatever it is the police do to teens, particularly of the affluent type). It's no longer an app for chatting while gaming, but it's very much connected to that piece of shit chud gamer 4chan-adjacent type of rhetoric.
CW: Nasty discord shit
Seriously, we're talking about people sharing Nazi shit, violent content, as well as CSAM these teenage boys made of the girls they bullied into taking nude selfies and then harming themselves. We're talking about kids doing "challenges" where they bully other kids their age or younger into killing their pets. It's really horrendous.So good riddance, I guess, but I don't mean that as an endorsement to encroaching on online privacy. All I mean is that, while I am opposed to this type of ID requirement... in this instance, nothing of value seems to be lost.
It's bullshit because a lot of tech things delegate their troubleshooting to fucking discord instead of traditional forums, it's a nightmare.
What if it's the CIA et al making kids make other kids kill their pets to manufacture consent for this exact thing
It's also used by adults to groom kids, so it has horrible users of a variety of ages.
It's either fascist grooming rings or tech pseudo-forums that pmo so bad whenever they're forced upon me