UK's Starmer seeks greater powers to regulate online access British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will seek broader powers to regulate internet access, which he said on Sunday was needed to protect children from fast-changing digital risks.

The UK already has one of the most restrictive internet policies in the west. Starmer seeking broad, extra-parliamentary powers to crack down on VPNs and other access is a troubling sign.

Censorship is always fuels an appetite for more censorship.

I never in my life ever seen a bitch go that far to protect predators/ murders

Pam Bondi really made a spectacle out of herself.

Trying to get these people to admit to everything is like trying to pull a tooth out of their mouths

"Many rely on anonymity to speak freely. LGBTQ+ youth, survivors of abuse, political dissidents, and countless others use aliases to explore identity, find support, and build community. When you’re worried that what you say can be traced back to your govt ID, you speak differently—or not at all."

I got an email saying that they cannot review email submissions, and only receive customer support questions through this form: dis.gd/contact

I would try submitting a complaint through there.

I keep seeing folks say they'll just accept a Teen Friendly account on Discord rather than scan or ID and I don't know if I wanna mass normalize leaving NSFW pals out in the cold yet again. Especially with all the censorship stuff goin on I think we gotta stand with the freaks now more than ever.

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#DottieThursday

That’s why don’t believe “protect the kids” bs billionaires love kids ofc they do shit like this

Go and light their feedback forms up over this, it is much more effective than emailing: dis.gd/contact

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

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?

YALL KNOW WHAT THE FUCK IS UP CALI!

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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)

Just sharing this again for no reason: hothardware.com/news/death-s...

Discord to roll out age verification next month for full access to its platform | TechCrunch All users will be put into a "teen-appropriate experience" by default unless they prove that they are adults.

These age verification initiatives is a privacy nightmare. Terrible policies hastily put out without a second thought to wider implications is endangering safety while offering no real protection in the way it is intended. This will drive people deeper into the darker pits of the net.

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.

so wait you're telling me a moral panic around the internet is not based on any actual scientific data but just cynical governments looking to control access to speech

I’m sorry, but I’m never voting for this woman again she literally done nothing to call out the shit happing rn and she wants to maintain the status quo

Look at these sickening pedo emails.

Why are they protecting these people? Why did Kash say there was no trafficking going on?

Why do Republicans not care?

@MarshaBlackburn @RepTimBurchett @RepOgles @SenatorHagerty @RepJohnRose

The European Commission is pushing hard to extend Chat Control 1.0 - allowing mass scanning of private messages without court orders for another two years. Contact your MEPs TODAY via fightchatcontrol.eu to defend your privacy and digital rights!

'The UK war on VPNs is an embarrassment' – backlash grows over proposed VPN age-checks Critics are warning against proposals to restrict VPN access — but will the plans actually become law?

The failure of age-verification laws is now turning into a War on VPNs. The British government and a number of US states are now proposing that VPNs be banned entirely, or only accessible to those who have surrendered to facial scans, ID check and other identity verification.

www.badinternetbills.com#stop-csam

In addition to calling your reps, this website has both a lot of information explaining why these bills are bad/ why section 230 must be protected, as well as petitions to sign for each individual issue!

Signing petitions helps! Make your calls, sign petitions!

There trying to bring it up again do your calls

Wish a certain North American country would to…

French police raid Paris offices of X as probe into Grok widens The offices of X in France were searched by French prosecutors as they widened a probe into Grok sexual "deepfakes" and Holocaust denial content.

“French cybercrime authorities searched the offices of Elon Musk's X in Paris on Tuesday as they investigate the company on suspicion of illegal harvesting of data and complicity in the possession or distribution of child pornography.”

France Considers Restricting VPNs to Support Under-15 Social Media Ban - Decrypt A French official said the government is looking at ways to stop the use of VPNs to evade an incoming social media ban for kids under 15.

France becomes the latest country to float severe VPN restrictions in order to "fix" a bad age-verification law.

VPN bans and other privacy restrictions aren't incidental to authoritarianism, they're a a critical component in their formation.

Greater Than Campaign YouTube video by Them Before Us

Heritage Foundation, Focus on the Family, FRC and a host of other groups just launched a broadside campaign against marriage equality, saying that Obergefell is, wait for it ... "harmful to children."

Amazon discovered a 'high volume' of CSAM in its AI training data but isn't saying where it came from The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children said it received more than 1 million reports of AI-related child sexual abuse material in 2025, with "the vast majority" stemming from Amazon.

COOL COOL COOL COOL.

you draw a nude fictional woman too short or you do sex work and you get debanked, but you plug enough CSAM into your ai training data that the NCMEC gets flooded with "more than 1 million reports of AI-related CSAM in 2025" and hey, thats just the cost of bizness bay bee

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