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Technology · 8 months ago

Discord Distances Itself From Age Verification Firm After Ties To Palantir’s Peter Thiel Surface

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Discord Distances Itself From Age Verification Firm After Ties To Palantir’s Peter Thiel Surface

Chris Remington ( remington@beehaw.org ) MA to

Technology · 8 months ago

cross-posted to:
hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se

Discord's Age Verification Has A Weird Link To Palantir's Peter Thiel

The third-party company Discord could use for their ID collection is mired in surveillance concerns and links to Epstein via one of its investors

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