Which is why you farm off stuff like this to third parties whenever possible
DiscordCorp will get a slap on the wrist and give people an offer of a free six months of discord turbo (so long as you provide payment info so it can auto-renew on month seven).
But ANY meaningful consequences will go toward Zendesk Corp for not doing what they were supposed to. And… then everyone will just use ZZendesk instead
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Well, yeah. Discord isn’t exactly at fault here, they’re operating as best they can within the boundaries of a piece of legislation that could be best described as gods gift to the “I-told-you-so” crowd. This breach is exactly what everyone was warning would happen with the UK ID laws, and discord got stung first as they’re one of the few companies trying to adhere to the law in good faith (which, yes, why in hell they’re trying to do this is good faith is a very good question)
Axolotl_cpp@lemmy.ml 11 hours ago
Literally days ago i was accessing a nsfw channel and i got “well, you should send to us your JD and things so i can verificate you” and i thought “no way! I don’t want to give my infos, if they have a data breach we are all doomed” and i ignore, well i don’t want to say “i told you so” but…