Anne Crow

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)

Nitro subscription cancelled. Anyway, fuck Discord's noise, and I'm really getting tired of being an adult on the internet having to deal with less and less freedoms because folks don't know how to parent their kids anymore.

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Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally Discord is announcing enhanced teen safety features rolling out globally that reinforce its long-standing commitment to creating a safer and more inclusive experience for users over the age of 13.

discord.com/press-releas...

Beyond cancelling Nitro, contact your lawmakers. Everything they propose is beyond legally dubious, from possible ADA, CCPA, CALOPPA etc. violations to possible defiance of EU Privacy and digital ID laws.

if anyone is still looking to throw complaints @ discord, SHOVE THIS IN THEIR FACE. link to an article to it in ur fucking complaint, it's not just a concern that your info may get leaked, there is proof that this has already happened, fucking imagine what will happen if this is on a global scale

Drawing of Gideon Nav from The Locked Tomb series unsheating her longsword while looking at the camera.

Gideon! Gideon! Gideon!

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".

> Discussing his new role, Gaudechon said he intends to help Remedy scale in a way that "builds lasting value."

things that read like a car going 120kph on a windy road in the rain

Fellas is it radical to suggest 'ability to navigate individual consent' is a necessary life skill

and I'm more than a little disturbed that people in power are implying it's possible to create a sterilized world where this skill is not needed anymore

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

I am having a loud mind

Ngl I've been musing about making a alt for Reasons

I will give a $15/hr rate discount on NSFW comms to anyone who can prove they cancelled Nitro over this.

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>claims to want to protect kids
>asks them to type their full name, address and birthdate into a random ass google form

Sorry to vent on main but I'm just so sick of being a grown-ass adult online who can't openly enjoy talking about or drawing sex stuff even in completely adult spaces where all minors are completely banned just because everyone has gotta be such fascist controlling fucking babies about it

I mean I heard of I've named Stoat and just because I am an easily weasel-pilled person I am tempted to at least give that a look.

Companies: "THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!"
No one is buying it, we fucking know where our personal info is going and its not in the name of child safety.

I wanted to but to mobile app won't let me do I have to wait until I'm home with my desktop.

Yes I'm pretty peeved about that

Lancer comm ordered by one of my patrons. It's a Death's head named Partisan piloted by Saint. Very fun to work on.

Iskander Commission. Very fun and fulfilling to work on. The pilot was a baddie and the mech concept was cool.

CSM Sneaker Peaker, rest is on P place

Eliza redesigns for Conglomerate.

Lancer callsign: Patchwork
Frame moniker: JingYu (Metalmark)
Patchwork was destined to live and die unremarkably maintaining production for SSC subsidiaries in the icy steel mills. However, the fire of revolution sparked new opportunities though with great cost.

There are a lot of incredible games in this bundle including some #LancerRPG stuff:
* Cathedral of the Deadstar
* Tombs of Delios
* Pierce the Heavens (Valkyrion)
* Oil, Water, & Blood (coco)
* Harvest Star's Tithe (coco)
* Immortal Winds (Scratch)
* In Nehal Blue (Cael)
* Ironbound Shadows (Cael)

Repeating what other people said but I’d advise that people not move off discord immediately because they’re known to backtrack on this kind of stuff. I remember they wanted to do nft integration at one point lmao

If you live in the US, call your fucking representatives and tell them that repealing Section 230 is a horrible idea. If Section 230 is gone, you can kiss Bluesky goodbye.

I really wish we had a well funded, power critical fourth estate interested in investigating the source of this clearly coordinated effort by payment processors.

Like, we keep seeing the impact of it, but I really want to know the "who" and the "why" beyond nebulous surveillance/puritanism forces.

There are other ways to prove age. They are choosing this one because it’s not about proving age.

Seeing how many people defend stuff like this when it’s the most overt Trojan horse scheme I’ve ever seen has been incredibly disappointing.

I genuinely don’t think you could’ve convinced me this was the future in 2010.