Five years? My, aren't we optimistic.

Hell even 3 months ago.

https://discord.com/press-releases/update-on-security-incident-involving-third-party-customer-service

And said data will never be used for fake CSAM or a library for the powerful to handpick their next victims

"Hacked" I'm convinced most of them are selling it, then claiming being hacked so they have plausible deniability when the alias/e-mail you ONLY used for discord starts getting spam+. Depending on if you linked your number, etc...

The parenting aspect is a red herring. Nothing about these policies is really to 'protect the children'. The big tech groups have figured out that they can gate-keep ... everything... and require your pii/data to get to it; and that many/most people will give up that data to keep access to their content.

That said, teaching your children about the importance of privacy is becoming as important as teaching them about other harmful online content. "Don't trust a Nigerian prince, let me know if you're being bullied, don't watch porn* and don't scan your face to get on discord"

* until you're 18-ish, at which point go nuts, just know it's all fake.

I am also leaving discord, I hated it and the people who use it a lot, but used it to connect to family members. I will find other ways.

This is the same exact cycle I went through with social media, which I also left entirely. I stopped browsing a lot of sites I used to, I took most of my personal info off the internet, and ended a lot of subscriptions.

The internet lately is feeling more and more like making end-of-life plans.

Because parenting is hard and they don't need the working masses distracted by kids, they need them slaving away forever.

I won't even give hard drives when recycling a computer, I pull and smash myself. Last set of old drives I cut in half with bolt cutters.

Maybe this bullshit will be the spark needed to move us all off Discord. It's fine for voice-chat in games, don't get me wrong, but I HATE how its replaced forums/wikis for so many games/mods/etc. Searching disparate Discord servers is like looking for a nonferrous straw-colored needle in a haystack.

They will have some kind of nebulously described "thing" that will monitor your browsing and chatting habits on discord and use that to decide your "implicit age" and I wish any of that was a joke or rumor.

They won't just ask for your face and ID, they are also admitting that AI or something is going to be literally watching you at all times to "determine your age."

Tell me again how we're protecting kids? Where them Epstein prosecutions at? We save any kids yet? How about now?

Legally, they can't be sure you didn't sell the account, even if the email address is the same.

Not defending the policy here, it's bullshit. But I'm simply pointing out that they have excuses to beat any logic you throw at them. Logic has nothing to do with it, so it can't be beaten by logic either.

Would you be willing to elaborate more on this topic?

Yep, straight to Palantir.

In 10 years, when MAGA has everything locked down, and you complain about something online, they'll put out a BOLO, and instantly, the entire network will start checking every camera for your face, and within a few minutes they will have a timeline on your movements for as far back as they want, including every time you enter or leave your house. If you aren't in your house, they'll find you out there somewhere, and immediately dispatch ICE Apes to find you, detain you, and send you to the nearest work camp, where you will be leased out as a slave to some corporation.

Not really. At the beginning it was amazing. It took 0 resources to run while gaming and the call quality was miles ahead, nevermind the flexibility around servers and what you could do with them.

Then, as all things, it turned to shit once ot gained market share.

Sounds like creepy spyware