cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/33458148
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/33458015
If I am required to do this, I am purging my Discord account immediately. I am not giving them face scans.
I prefer websites and services who just ask if I’m older than 18.
When 01/01/1900 no longer becomes an option I’ll need to resort to my standby of 01/01/1970.
you can just use 01/01/2000
Babies aren’t allowed to view adult sites!
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Shit.
We’re getting fucking old, aren’t we? :)
I’ll never admit it. I’m still 13 inside.
I, too, like sites that have things like videos for adults.
Probably just a coincidence. Most likely maybe.
Gross
Why? This cannot possibly have any legal weight. Some adults look young. Some kids look old. The very idea is broken from the outset.
I can’t tell if this is incompetence or malice.
I guess someone had that idea, sold it and then contracted some poor guy to implement it, even if it is bullshit and does not work
The only difference I see between this and the only other non-official way of verifying age on Discord is that Discord itself will have your face and not just the mod team of the room you’re joining.
I wasn’t gonna send a picture of my ID to some rando; I sure as fuck won’t give it to a corporate entity.
Just in case anyone reading this gets the impression that direct messages sent on Discord are private from Discord itself, they aren’t. If you were to send your face to a mod, or send anything to anyone there, then Discord would have it, too.
To be fair to Discord, it has to work that way. They serve the files to you anywhere in the world on any device you use, don’t they? That requires hosting the content.
But it could very well be used for other purposes, too, of course.
No, it doesn’t have to work that way, as we can see by the existence of messaging platforms with end-to-end encryption.
I suspect the person to whom I replied understands this, but their comment could have been misinterpreted as implying that Discord messages are private, so I wanted to clarify.
Regardless, they need to have it in their terms of service that they can host the file, encrypted or otherwise, on their servers and reserve the right to serve the files to other users.
But yes, that’s true that they can’t necessarily access the files they’re hosting/serving.
But I don’t want to give discord my face. I need that
I’d be pretty surprised if this wasn’t a lie to get attention