Discord announced on Monday that it’s rolling out age verification on its platform globally starting next month, when it will automatically set all users’ accounts to a “teen-appropriate” experience unless they demonstrate that they’re adults.
Users who aren’t verified as adults will not be able to access age-restricted servers and channels, won’t be able to speak in Discord’s livestream-like “stage” channels, and will see content filters for any content Discord detects as graphic or sensitive. They will also get warning prompts for friend requests from potentially unfamiliar users, and DMs from unfamiliar users will be automatically filtered into a separate inbox.
Direct messages and servers that are not age-restricted will continue to function normally, but users won’t be able to send messages or view content in an age-restricted server until they complete the age check process, even if it’s a server they were part of before age verification rolled out. Savannah Badalich, Discord’s global head of product policy, said in an interview with The Verge that those servers will be “obfuscated” with a black screen until the user verifies they’re an adult. Users also won’t be able to join any new age-restricted servers without verifying their age.
None of the companies pulling this shit are offering a good enough product to be worth it.
markz@suppo.fi 2 weeks ago
Oh thanks, it’s fixed
Suure
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Oh yeah it’s totally deleted from that one server! Of course all information is kept for “quality and training purposes” and to hand over to palantir and whoever is willing to pay.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Now what sort of unethical corporate greed machine would do that?
. . . All of them?
Oh. Oh dear.
markz@suppo.fi 2 weeks ago
Just like they deleted it from the last provider
criss_cross@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And for advertising so that they can bucket you accordingly.
Gotta juice the B2B spigot for the upcoming IPO
Lucelu2@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Well, you need to understand, Palantir needs a library for their facial recognition software.
TheLadyAugust@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If this was true, then they would have no problem with agreeing to paying us $50 mil each in the event of a data breach, since it could never happen, right?