Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Jobe@feddit.org ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The thing is they aren’t (yet). It looks like the EU might be thinking about introducing some sort of requirement for age verification, but it’s nowhere near decided enough for Discord to demand it globally. There are also methods of age verification that are much better and more secure than what they will use, like the German AusweisApp.

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  • bekopharm@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The eID can do this EU wide already but it’s usage is regulated and that’s not something a company wants to accept. The EU Digital Identity Wallet would hit the spot even more, since it’s very privacy friendly: ec.europa.eu/…/The+Age+Verification+Manual

    That’s still in testing though and even less in the interest of a company that wants to extract as much user data as possible.

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    • ell1e@leminal.space ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sorry if I misread your post, but hopefully this comment of mine is relevant:

      In my humble opinion, the digital wallet is horrible, because as far as I can tell 1. it requires Google device attestation so all custom ROMs are out and to be a citizen you can apparently no longer own your device, 2. unless you use iOS or Android you’re apparently not a citizen, 3. once everyone is used to using some citizen app like that, I feel like a fascist government could easily tie it to a social score or other authoritarian measures bewyond the age verification. 4. There is a privacy friendly alternative approach for age verification anyway, that most governments seem to conveniently be ignoring: politico.com/…/california-law-online-age-checks-0…

      Also see here on the EU apaprently trying to make this mandatory: leminal.space/post/31858818/21120139

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