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Chris Remington ( remington@beehaw.org ) MA to Technology · 8 months ago

Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs

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Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs

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Chris Remington ( remington@beehaw.org ) MA to Technology · 8 months ago
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Discord to block adult content unless users verify ages with selfies or IDs.
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    Count me in as one of the people who quits Discord over this. For my use case which is gaming with my friends we may as well just use Telegram for voice chat plus screen sharing.

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