Iris 🪻

anyways, don't get off discord yet; not because this isn't heinous but because we're currently in the post-horror scramble to find alternatives. give things a second to settle down so you can find out which ones suck and which ones don't. instead, cancel your nitro, yell at discord, and plan.

"Don't worry about the Discord thing, it's only NSFW servers and channels that will require age verification! :)"

I could remove every speck of risque imagery/topics from my community and there's still a 50% chance we'd get flagged just because we're openly queer.

It's not actually about the kids.

cancelling nitro's all cool (i did it too) but don't forget that this age verification requirement is pushed by "think of the children!!" govt regulations slowly creeping into more and more countries. alas it seems to be inevitable that in a decade every big online service is going to be age-gated.

Discord isn't walking back anything yet, but this shows they are feeling the pressure and you should keep bullying and contacting them until they relent.

"Why do you care if you have to ID yourself online you have to ID if you go into a bar irl or buy booze or go into a sex shop"

Yeah cool but the cashier behind the counter at the sex shop doesn't log my full government name, age, height, gender and birth place if I go in there to buy a dildo.

despite what this post may say: this is not a walkback. this is a reiteration. we already knew this information. do not fall for unwise propaganda. keep the pressure on, financially or verbally. barrage them.

Just got this email back. Don't use email, use their form: support.discord.com/hc/en-us/req...

If you haven't used their support portal, you may need to request activation and use the email you have associated with your disc account.

Hit the same points as you would in an email, tips below ⬇️

To repeat.

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And to repeat:

The political faction saying we must all have to log legal ID before speaking or accessing speech on the Internet,

and the political faction who believe transgenderism is a dangerous mental contagion that spreads by speech about transgenderism,

are the same faction.

"the vast majority of you won't have to worry about this" I don't even fucking care if it turns out it's only three people that have to worry about this, it shouldn't be implemented, period. Keep cancelling your Nitro, they're clearly noticing

all i want to do online is play video games, talk to my friends, and look at girls boobs and every fucking day some freak i've never met decides to make it harder and harder to do that

Reminder: Policies such as Age Verification, Client Side Scanning, under 16 bans, and weakening/repealing Section 230 aren't about "protecting children" and "holding big tech accountable."

Politicians want to regain control of socio-political narratives and get rid of anything they find icky.

Kinda Fucked Up that in our lifetimes we've gone from "never share personal info on the internet" to "hand over your identity to the most incompetent corporations imaginable".

When we overthrow the tech bros I only want monster fuckers and furry porn artists running the internet and tech.

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month Age verification for all.

Less than 6 months ago @discord.com had a data breach exposing ID’s of 70,000 + of its users but …apparently hasn’t learned anything?

ID checks don’t make the internet safer, they make us all more vulnerable.

www.theverge.com/tech/875309/...

Hey can we bring back all those internet safety campaigns we had when I was a millennial teen? It is NOT my job to parent someone else's kids and have to submit my ID to places to sanitize the internet for some puritanical outrage about kids. Parents should be doing this themselves.

it drives you insane how much erosion of freedom is justified by concern for kids when the people who actually hurt them will never face consequences

Oh my god, so many people are canceling Nitro that it's having issues processing it, cook 'em hard bois.

if i know discord for anything is that they can and will pussy out if people bully them enough for something. get fucking loud about this

In light of the Discord news, don't forgot to make your calls.

When calling your House Rep also mention these bills:
KOSA
SCREEN Act
COPPA 2.0
RESET Act
Sammy Act
App Store Accountability Act
GAMING Act
Safe Messaging for Kids Act
Parents over Platforms Act
Sunset to Reform Section 230 Act

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Tl;dr: The vast majority of adults will never have to interact with our age assurance systems and their experience won't change, because we know Discord and how people use it, so we're designing to respect privacy and deliver a safer experience while minimizing friction for adults. Hey folks – I’ve been on Discord since very early 2016 and actually joined the company in 2017. Safety is one of my areas, so today’s announcement on our blog is something I’ve been pretty involved with. I’ve always cared about Discord's approach to privacy (E2EE for A/V was another of my projects here), so I figured I’d add some more context to today's news. I can say confidently that the vast majority of people will never see age verification. I say this because we launched age assurance in the UK and Australia in 2025, and we have some pretty good data on this now. The idea here is that we can pre-identify most adults based on what we already know (not including your messages!), and that looks to get us pretty far here. No face scans, no IDs, for the vast majority of adults.

And if you are one of the smaller subset of folks that we can't definitively pre-identify, then still, you only have to do it if you're accessing age-restricted servers or channels, or changing certain settings. That's really not most users. (Altho... might be more Redditors, tbh.) Last, I know that there is concern about privacy and data leaks. That's a real concern. The selfie system is built purely client-side, it never leaves your device, and we did that intentionally. That'll work for a bunch of users who aren't pre-identified as adults. But if you do end up in the ID bucket, then yeah, you're right that has some risk. We're doing what we can to minimize this by working with our range of partners (who are different partners than the data leak you read about), and if it's any help, we learned a lot internally from the last issue. But I get if that doesn't necessarily inspire more confidence. Anyway, we’ll be sharing more next month as we get closer to the global roll out about the system, including the technology behind it in March. I honestly wouldn't be happy if we didn't build something good and I am excited about what we’re launching, but please let us know what you think when we share more details. And I really appreciate everybody's feedback here today. We’re definitely reading it!

Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)

#SaveSpeech

If KOSA, SCREEN, And other Federal AV laws Passes then it's Over for Privacy, Security and Data Leaks Mandatory Face scans is going to be Normalized!

Pretty Please Start Calling your REPS!! This is serious! It's not protecting anyone. I am so Tired

#Section230 is why our internet is open to LGBTQ+ youths who are surviving abusive homes. Shame on those who call its repeal "accountability" when it's actually about silencing marginalized voices. Without it, platforms would drown in frivolous lawsuits designed to erase queer existence.

While cancelling Nitro is all well and good, just a reminder that age verification itself won't go away as a whole unless KOSA, the SCREEN Act, and tons more are buried and done with.

Please contact your reps if you don't want this to spread to other platforms.

🐺 #Wriothesley #GenshinImpact

Damn you’re telling me the technology that was very obviously intended for unregulated speculation and criminal enterprises was used to do awful things

朝のイトアキ☀️
#lighterwise

The Wayback is now so load-bearing we should be protecting it with our actual lives

When you ban porn people don’t stop watching it- they go to shadier places that are run by shadier people in countries that don’t have the same copyright or revenge porn laws.

By banning adult content we are just seeing people to buy illegal content from people who are counting on it.

#nsfw #vpn

There are still protests, sure, but mostly they're just stalking the streets while people are trying to literally Live. And, again, cant stress this enough, This Is Also Happening In Rural Areas Like Where I Live, Where Crime Is Rare And 99% Non-Violent.

This is the definition of a terror campaign.

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