The company that is going to be doing the age checking for Discord, Persona, is partly funded by Peter Thiel of Palantir's investment group https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4g8ynpwl8o

[patrickoftheg@mastodon.social]

@cwebber Given Europe's love of all-encompassing domestic surveillance, one wonders if handing over a gift to the Palantir ghouls (and everyone in advertising) wasn't maybe the whole of the reason why all the politicians pushed for age-gated social media to begin with.

[russss@chaos.social]

@cwebber I'm mostly surprised that Discord isn't already linked to Thiel given that he's one of the most prolific investors in the Valley. He missed a trick there.

[drew@dev.noteshimp.com]

it is always the ones you most suspect

[julianoe@mastodon.xyz]

@russss @cwebber Discord is going public very soon. Count on Palantir or other Thiel affiliated structures to buy some

[cryogenicice9@mastodon.online]

@cwebber I still find it 'hilarious' that noone cared when it was just the UK facing age verification, because 'haha, serves them right for living in a facsist state'

[mina@berlin.social]

@cwebber

Peter Thiel inside. What could possibly go wrong?

[paulmeyn@troet.cafe]

@cwebber Ahhh ja.

[meneerdebruin@mastodon.nl]

@cwebber Bye-bye Discord, hello Signal.

[herman@mastodon.world]

@cwebber I will delete my Discord accounts at the moment age verification will be mandatory.

[fishface@ioc.exchange]

@Herman @cwebber that's not part of the plan though