YES!
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YES! This is AMAZING!
Keep pushing against abusive practices, and keep fighting for your privacy rights!
IT WORKS!
Discord just canceled its planned age verification rollout, for now - 9to5Mac
Discord’s controversial age verification saga has reached a new turning point. The original rollout plan has officially been canceled, with...
9to5Mac (9to5mac.com)
Edit: Just to be clear, I still encourage everyone to move to better platforms and delete your Discord accounts (even if there was no age verification at all). Discord isn't a privacy-respectful platform.
But this small victory means we should keep pushing for better privacy practices, everywhere.
This means they are listening. This means you have the power to make things better, for yourself and for others.
Celebrate that. And keep pushing back.
They pushed it back a couple months... It's not going away. Don't celebrate just yet.
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@doin please give their blog post a read:
Getting Global Age Assurance Right: What We Got Wrong and What's Changing
Discord's CTO addresses community concerns about age assurance: no mass ID collection, new vendor transparency commitments, and a delayed global launch until second half of 2026.
(discord.com)
@solonovamax I've finished reading it. I was too optimistic. The main idea of this article is that we're not going to eat people in a barbaric way anymore; we're going to eat them in a more refined way, and we've decided to wait a few hours before eating. Fuck.
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@solonovamax I've finished reading it. I was too optimistic. The main idea of this article is that we're not going to eat people in a barbaric way anymore; we're going to eat them in a more refined way, and we've decided to wait a few hours before eating. Fuck.
@doin exactly
absolutely nothing has changed, except they just want to make it SEEM like things have changed so that all the hate goes away.
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YES! This is AMAZING!
Keep pushing against abusive practices, and keep fighting for your privacy rights!
IT WORKS!
Discord just canceled its planned age verification rollout, for now - 9to5Mac
Discord’s controversial age verification saga has reached a new turning point. The original rollout plan has officially been canceled, with...
9to5Mac (9to5mac.com)
Edit: Just to be clear, I still encourage everyone to move to better platforms and delete your Discord accounts (even if there was no age verification at all). Discord isn't a privacy-respectful platform.
But this small victory means we should keep pushing for better privacy practices, everywhere.
This means they are listening. This means you have the power to make things better, for yourself and for others.
Celebrate that. And keep pushing back.
I had an account I barely used, to go into the "servers" of some projects that offer no other way to ask for help (some Minecraft mods, browser extensions, etc.).
I got an email a few days ago saying it was permanently deleted. Good riddance.
That said, I imagine Discord will lay low for a while, and try to do this again in a few months.
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YES! This is AMAZING!
Keep pushing against abusive practices, and keep fighting for your privacy rights!
IT WORKS!
Discord just canceled its planned age verification rollout, for now - 9to5Mac
Discord’s controversial age verification saga has reached a new turning point. The original rollout plan has officially been canceled, with...
9to5Mac (9to5mac.com)
Edit: Just to be clear, I still encourage everyone to move to better platforms and delete your Discord accounts (even if there was no age verification at all). Discord isn't a privacy-respectful platform.
But this small victory means we should keep pushing for better privacy practices, everywhere.
This means they are listening. This means you have the power to make things better, for yourself and for others.
Celebrate that. And keep pushing back.
@Em0nM4stodon I think "for now" is the important part.
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@doin exactly
absolutely nothing has changed, except they just want to make it SEEM like things have changed so that all the hate goes away.
@solonovamax Yes, thank you for reminding me. Let go of illusions and keep fighting.
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@solonovamax Yes, thank you for reminding me. Let go of illusions and keep fighting.
@doin I literally immediately suspected that it was all bullshit so went straight to check their blog
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@doin I literally immediately suspected that it was all bullshit so went straight to check their blog
@solonovamax You are a smart person who can see things clearly.
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@Em0nM4stodon All my friends moved to Signal. I assume Discord is just gonna pull a that thing most companies do and wait til they think everyone has forgotten before repeating their b.s.
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YES! This is AMAZING!
Keep pushing against abusive practices, and keep fighting for your privacy rights!
IT WORKS!
Discord just canceled its planned age verification rollout, for now - 9to5Mac
Discord’s controversial age verification saga has reached a new turning point. The original rollout plan has officially been canceled, with...
9to5Mac (9to5mac.com)
Edit: Just to be clear, I still encourage everyone to move to better platforms and delete your Discord accounts (even if there was no age verification at all). Discord isn't a privacy-respectful platform.
But this small victory means we should keep pushing for better privacy practices, everywhere.
This means they are listening. This means you have the power to make things better, for yourself and for others.
Celebrate that. And keep pushing back.
@Em0nM4stodon misleading headline. They didn’t cancel it, they just pushed it back while they finish fleshing it out. It’s progress, but not much imo
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YES! This is AMAZING!
Keep pushing against abusive practices, and keep fighting for your privacy rights!
IT WORKS!
Discord just canceled its planned age verification rollout, for now - 9to5Mac
Discord’s controversial age verification saga has reached a new turning point. The original rollout plan has officially been canceled, with...
9to5Mac (9to5mac.com)
Edit: Just to be clear, I still encourage everyone to move to better platforms and delete your Discord accounts (even if there was no age verification at all). Discord isn't a privacy-respectful platform.
But this small victory means we should keep pushing for better privacy practices, everywhere.
This means they are listening. This means you have the power to make things better, for yourself and for others.
Celebrate that. And keep pushing back.
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@sar @Em0nM4stodon they are still doing it. nothing has changed.
@solonovamax @sar @Em0nM4stodon
The person responsible for that headline should be flogged, at least metaphorically. "Canceled...for now."
Oh, you mean delayed? Postponed? Rescheduled?
Even with the qualifier at the end "canceled" lends the act a more permanent connotation than they actually intend.
...thus concludes my channeling of my news editor father . . . for now.
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@Em0nM4stodon misleading headline. They didn’t cancel it, they just pushed it back while they finish fleshing it out. It’s progress, but not much imo
@phillip
It's important to celebrate that our collective action had an impact.Is this solving the problem entirely? Of course not. And Discord is still a privacy-hostile platform, even without age verification.
But the fact that people got angry, and this made the platform move in a less privacy-hostile direction is a win. And we need to celebrate each win. No matter how small.
It doesn't mean we are leaving the fight. It means we can enjoy this small victory today, then fight even harder tomorrow.
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YES! This is AMAZING!
Keep pushing against abusive practices, and keep fighting for your privacy rights!
IT WORKS!
Discord just canceled its planned age verification rollout, for now - 9to5Mac
Discord’s controversial age verification saga has reached a new turning point. The original rollout plan has officially been canceled, with...
9to5Mac (9to5mac.com)
Edit: Just to be clear, I still encourage everyone to move to better platforms and delete your Discord accounts (even if there was no age verification at all). Discord isn't a privacy-respectful platform.
But this small victory means we should keep pushing for better privacy practices, everywhere.
This means they are listening. This means you have the power to make things better, for yourself and for others.
Celebrate that. And keep pushing back.
@Em0nM4stodon my guess is that #discord had a "#PiperChat moment" and realized that their entire business model IS a #COPPA violation!
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@phillip
It's important to celebrate that our collective action had an impact.Is this solving the problem entirely? Of course not. And Discord is still a privacy-hostile platform, even without age verification.
But the fact that people got angry, and this made the platform move in a less privacy-hostile direction is a win. And we need to celebrate each win. No matter how small.
It doesn't mean we are leaving the fight. It means we can enjoy this small victory today, then fight even harder tomorrow.
@Em0nM4stodon I agree 100%. Perfection is the enemy of progress
Sorry, I had a quick, knee jerk reaction. Wasn’t meant as a slight to you
9to5Mac’s misleading headline irked me and I’ve been having frustrating conversations with friends who don’t see the problem with all of this, and/or don’t have all the facts before making judgments. It has me feeling even more pessimistic than usual
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@Em0nM4stodon I agree 100%. Perfection is the enemy of progress
Sorry, I had a quick, knee jerk reaction. Wasn’t meant as a slight to you
9to5Mac’s misleading headline irked me and I’ve been having frustrating conversations with friends who don’t see the problem with all of this, and/or don’t have all the facts before making judgments. It has me feeling even more pessimistic than usual
@phillip That is understandable. I can relate with how frustrating this can get. Make sure to recharge around people sharing your privacy values to prevent burnout. Self-care is important in this long battle
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@phillip That is understandable. I can relate with how frustrating this can get. Make sure to recharge around people sharing your privacy values to prevent burnout. Self-care is important in this long battle
@Em0nM4stodon doing my best. Thank you, friend 🫶
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YES! This is AMAZING!
Keep pushing against abusive practices, and keep fighting for your privacy rights!
IT WORKS!
Discord just canceled its planned age verification rollout, for now - 9to5Mac
Discord’s controversial age verification saga has reached a new turning point. The original rollout plan has officially been canceled, with...
9to5Mac (9to5mac.com)
Edit: Just to be clear, I still encourage everyone to move to better platforms and delete your Discord accounts (even if there was no age verification at all). Discord isn't a privacy-respectful platform.
But this small victory means we should keep pushing for better privacy practices, everywhere.
This means they are listening. This means you have the power to make things better, for yourself and for others.
Celebrate that. And keep pushing back.
@Em0nM4stodon it's going to keep happening for this and other platforms if people keep voting for the politicians who are pushing for this kind of surveillance. Discord is only doing this to get ahead of all the new laws that require it.
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@Em0nM4stodon doing my best. Thank you, friend 🫶
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@solonovamax @sar @Em0nM4stodon
The person responsible for that headline should be flogged, at least metaphorically. "Canceled...for now."
Oh, you mean delayed? Postponed? Rescheduled?
Even with the qualifier at the end "canceled" lends the act a more permanent connotation than they actually intend.
...thus concludes my channeling of my news editor father . . . for now.
@EdCates @sar @Em0nM4stodon not just "for now"
they're very clearly still going through with it:
solo (@solonovamax@tech.lgbt)
to anyone touting this as them changing their mind: they have not. they still plan to do exactly the same thing they planned to before. that is, use your messages to determine your and if you get included in the 10% that are assumed to be children you have to upload id/do a facial scan. none of this has changed. they still plan to do a global rollout of age verification. https://discord.com/blog/getting-global-age-assurance-right-what-we-got-wrong-and-whats-changing @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/116127786561206440
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