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Notice the framing of sex trafficking victims as “consensual sex workers” and the simultaneous framing of consensual sex workers as “sex trafficking victims”

It could be really bad for Discord if Californians contact the office of the Attorney General to report the potential violations of CCPA and CALOPPA citing the recent breach from a few months back where 1.5tb of user data and millions of IDs were leaked, but who can say for sure?

I have personally seen two ***SFW*** colleagues in my direct orbit get their ko-fis/paypals nuked in the past few months. If you don't think it's coming for you: it is

And yes you should bring up the Epstein files when you call your reps. That hypocrisy should be drilled home at every goddamn turn.

When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means

Youve gotta bother the shit out if your representatives about the issue of online ID laws, its not a discord only problem nor is it limited to nsfw content

Please get involved

--'oh well why not find alternatives?'

Bitch there will be NO SAFE ALTERNATIVES soon, at this pace and trajectory, and you will not like who your favorite creators will have to share space with if Warren et al get their way.

MAKE CALLS.

MAKE CALLS MAKE CALLS MAKE CALLS.

I think people are really under a lot of delusions about how the internet is going to look in the next few months. The paranoia expressed by creators is not for nothing. We are seeing friends and colleagues get deplatformed and debanked *more* than usual. And most ppl's response to that is--

Your favorite progressive politicians are extremely horny for bills that restrict access. Elizabeth Warren is notoriously anti-SWer and keeps putting her name on these bills.

Said before will say again: even Bernie Sanders signed off on FOSTA-SESTA before he VERY tepidly said he shouldn't have.

Also if you have tropes that keep popping up in your stories, lil quirks that show up all the time in your art, don't iron those out.

Double down. Those are your fingerprints. It's proof it was made by you.

It's proof that it mattered to you. Enough that you put in shit that you liked.

A furless werewolf woman (Irene) with stringy/goopy hair looped around her neck and arms like chains. She stares half-delirious at something in the viewer's direction.

WIP - Irene

Another 'this would normally be a Patreon update but a lot of people donated so here it is.'

Been hammering on the Irene piece again to the point that I finally have visible progress to post. It's tough to post WIPs when all you've got is 'so i worked on the bicep today.'

I know I bang this drum every time a social app makes it harder to exist online as anything but the Ideal Consumer but... non app-based websites still exist

Probably some people I know here

So... I'm actually pretty grossed out by the idea that Discord is now going to be running an 'age inference model' on me.

What does this entail? To what extent does Discord think it has the right to paw through my personal information? How about fuck off?

Oh man i just realized all of those discord channels that replaced entire websites, forums, and wikis are going to just vanish and internet archive can't archive them

YALL KNOW WHAT THE FUCK IS UP CALI!

oag.ca.gov/contact/cons...

Guys, dont immediately jump ship. Complain on Discords forums. Spam their emails. Make noise. We'll never tackle the overlying problem if we just keep jumping ship.

Discord is easy to bully out of doing shit. We've made them stop doing NFT shit. We can stop them taking ID's. :)

i don't think you should make "drop and run" metal cylinders even for laughs because i work in e-waste recycling and if i find something in the waste stream that says "drop and run" i don't want to have to carefully consider whether it means it or not

I have a kofi here ko-fi.com/ares_xix but please don't feel pressured 😭😭 everything should be covered until next paycheck, it's just food money for the next week and a half I'm dire on

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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Yeah.... yeaaaah....

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

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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