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...
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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 am 100% with you, Em. The push back you've received in this thread is the same that I got when I suggested we should be happy that Mozilla and Microsoft clearly hear us, and we should celebrate our wins, even if they are small.
Terminal Tilt (@terminaltilt@climatejustice.social)
Mozilla is adding a toggle to disable all generative "AI" features in Firefox. It shows that organized pushback is actually making a difference. One battle won. Now let's make it crystal clear. We want tools, not forced LLMs. Keep the pressure on until "AI" is no longer an option. https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/02/firefox-will-soon-let-you-block-all-of-its-generative-ai-features/ #Firefox #Mozilla #NoAI #FOSS #OpenSource #Privacy #TerminalTilt
Climate Justice Social (climatejustice.social)
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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 That's awesome, but I have a feeling that once they recover their users back again they'll roll out Age Ver again
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@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.
@drikanis @Em0nM4stodon Which... ironically gives us an opportunity.
We can turn this into a hell of a scarry "Hell No" for any company considering this. Bonus points if we set up offramps for the social medias we know will pull this.
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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 regardless of this change people should leave the platform. I deleted my account and will be testing out platforms like Fluxer
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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 Its a small win. I've been trying to get my friends to move over to Matrix, but its been an uphill battle. I also really hated the "hello fellow privacy enthusiasts" tone of the CTO's blog post.
Not sure if its been brought up, but using the wayback machine it looks like Discord only listed 2 new roles, a privacy engineer and privacy counsel in the past 2 weeks.
