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Discord to Require ID or Face Scan Next Month for Full Access (discord.com)
submitted 12 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) by Beep@lemmus.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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    • Beginning with a phased global rollout to new and existing users in early March, users may be required to engage in an age-verification process to change certain settings or access sensitive content. This includes age-restricted channels, servers, or commands and select message requests.

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    [–] Aatube@thriv.social 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

    only changes for the unverified:

    • Channels, servers, and commands set to age-restricted will be inaccessible
    • DM requests deemed "sensitive" will be inaccessible
    • "Sensitive content" will be blurred
    • Won't be able to become a speaker in "stage" channels, a special type where a few videoconferencers have a meeting where anyone else can watch and type but not videoconference; verified watchers can be invited to speak
    • DMs from unfamiliar users will be routed to a separate "warning"

    nothing else

    I think this is business as usual...

    [–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

    Youtube age restricts pro-Palestine stuff and the government age restricts the Epstein files, so I can imagine this would target political or LGBTQ spaces, which are some of the worst spaces to require ID for. There's a local political server I'm in, which due to this I'm strongly urging to migrate to Matrix with Discord bridges, and am offering to help with.

    [–] Aatube@thriv.social 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

    Server owners must apply an age-restricted label to any channels that contain sexually explicit content involving adults or content involving adults that is shared solely for the purposes of sexual gratification.

    nothing else needs to be age-restricted, and age restriction of topics you mentioned would be big news for discord. pluralkit's home is discord and has great influence there, and the lgbtq+ community definitely has a larger presence than the plural community

    [–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

    https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500005389362-What-are-Age-Restricted-Servers-on-Discord

    This here says that Discord can automatically age-restrict channels and specifically mentions channels focused on sexual content in a different section, implying that this is not the only "mature" topic they will age restrict.

    [–] Aatube@thriv.social 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

    https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500005292701-How-to-Access-an-Age-Restricted-Server-FAQ clarifies that Discord would only do that for servers that otherwise violate the Community Guidelines's provisions on adult content, whose only mention of which I quoted above.

    [–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 1 points 53 minutes ago

    That doesn't look like clarification to me. It explicitly mentions sexual content then gives a vague "age-restricted themes" and "18+ content" that they can apply arbitrarily like YouTube did with "Hind's Hall"