Ayla

...interesting o^o

0//0 oh my-

👉👈uhm... i uh i- 0^o

Despite how excellent the news may seem, do not get comfortable just yet

One key word to take this away from; "Halted," which means, the Age Verification junk is very much alive and there's a possibility they'll be trying this again

Keep the pressure going, do not let them get away with this

o.o goodness..

Maybe we could find out.

Mastercard (US): 1-800-627-8372
Mastercard (Int.): +1-636-722-7111
Visa (US + Can): 1 800 847 2911
Visa (AUS): 1 800 125 440
PayPal: +44-0203-901-7000

o.o oh dear-
(curiosity has been teased, indeed.)

...bwaaa
(i really have nothing to say, uhh.. howdy anyone..?)

......I appear to have a.. absurd amount of saved posts that could've just been ♡'d instead.

...welp-

Discord Nitro cancelled.

I don't want to prove my age to you. I don't want you to track me with AI to guess my age. I want a place where people make their own decisions about the content they exchange. If that's not what you're offering I'll go elsewhere.

The Internet is for people, not corpos.

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)

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idk they raise a good point

“Screenshot of a promoted Reddit post by u/AYAGDOS. The post reads: ‘Navigating gender dysphoria? Join our confidential, cross-country study of 18–25 year olds to tell your story, challenge preconceptions, and have YOUR experience reflected in the science.’ Below is a banner graphic with the Northwestern University logo and the text ‘TRANS OR GENDERQUEER? SHARE YOUR STORY.’ The image shows a close-up of a hand with light pink nail polish, partially painted blue, held up against a blurred background. A link to ayagdos.org and a ‘Learn More’ button appear at the bottom, along with Reddit vote and share icons.”

If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

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(...wish I were short like that-)

>.>

o.o

happy bday to you -^-

I was going to rant for several posts until I was blue in the face, but instead I'm going to be productive and relay some info on how to oppose this. No-Politics enjoyers, please take the time to help out. (Thank you @alydalstry.bsky.social)

Use your zip code to find your rep on the website below!

worked*

Quite a bit different from what I usually post, but if appreciate anyone who's willing to give it a read. Thank you for your time.

Very important factor to this

...forgot I had a Twitter account at one point.
didn't realize it until I noticed it was on my homescreen and learned i had been signed out.
but eh.not sure why I had it in the first place.
now it's just here, tumblr, and discord for me. -w-'

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

Stripe says it’s accepting payments for LGBTQ content
JVA site starts working with Visa again
Mastercard reportedly panicking and making Riot moderate messages

The tide is turning
We are going to win this
Keep calling
Keep writing
Keep fighting

You can do this

THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO STOP!!

We are winning, but we have not won fully!!!

Keep calling!!

stop-paypros.neocities.org

it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people

reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous

It's how these lobbyists got what they wanted. They didn't plead their morality to somebody. They were just annoying for a short period of time. You can be more annoying for longer. I believe in you!

“Visa is just yelling at people and disconnecting calls” is crazy. Holy shit