And if you agree to their new terms of service (there's only an accept button when you open the site), you agree it's not discord's fault!
Such innovation.
this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2025
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This has been going around lately, but the arbitration clause has been in the ToS for at least a year, but probably since the beginning. Not saying it is a good thing, but it is already far too late. The new update just added "resources" for arbitration. You know, arbitrators that are paid by Discord
I don't remember discord requiring ID, at least in the US. Not that is any better, just didn't realize ID was required anywhere.
Currently 25 states require it. Incidentally 23 of to lowest 25 states allow child marriage. Funny isn't it?
From https://www.theverge.com/news/797051/discord-government-ids-leaked-data-breach :
Of the accounts impacted globally, we have identified approximately 70,000 users that may have had government-ID photos exposed, which our vendor used to review age-related appeals.
So they only demand your ID if they've somehow decided that you're underage and you want to appeal that.
What idiot provided an ID to a Chinese company?
It's not about the individual behavior though and shaming someone for this doesn't change anything. If you have a wildly popular social media network, thousands/millions of people will provide their ID if requested. This is all on Discord for not keeping the IDs safe and for asking for them in the first place.
Their business is farming idiots, if you don't protect yourself, nobody will
Of course everyone should try to be safe online and we should try to give anyone the ability to protect themselves. Shaming individuals will actively prevent people from being educated. The issue at hand is about the business practices and security standards of discord, not individual people. I get that in this bleak capitalist system, neither discord nor any other company has the incentive to care about people. But it's their responsibility nonetheless. Despite the economic system we live in constantly pressuring us to compete with each other, we should not give in but be empathetic with and help each other.
Telling people that it is Discord's responsibility to protect them is bad education.
It is not and they will not. The sooner people get the idea that corporation is the enemy of the working class, the quicker we get to move to the change phase of operation.
As long as people keep doing stupid shit, the longer the corporations will continue to fuck them over. It is business 101. Why should they change when idiot consumers won't
You did not get what I was saying at all. Fundamentally, we agree on this and believe me, I'm just as frustrated as you with people blindly following these big tech companies. I'm just trying to say we should be more friendly to people who are not yet technically proficient. I experience it in my day to day life all the time that people choose comfort over their own freedom/their own rights. If I were just to call them stupid, this would just build up resentment and would only really benefit me to feel superior. Instead, I try to educate them about how big tech harms everyone and what alternatives there are. I've had years of practice being vegan and having to constantly maneuver situations where people would get mad at me for sticking to my principles. I feel like this is something similar, sticking to the principle of not giving in to the comfort of big tech.
To any social media company?
Touché
Doesn't the UK require that shit now?
And I know a bunch of US states require it when you stumble on a tit.
Either way, VPNs making bank right now.
Apparently so but yeah I ain't playing these games. VPN should always be used nowadays for everything