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Discord Begins Testing Facial Scans for Age Verification (gizmodo.com)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They are testing this in the Australia and UK in response to laws based by those respective governments. Discord isn’t the one to blame.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

And apparently only if you encounter flagged material or have the "enable sensitive content" option active.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah but who decides what sensitive content is? Is this going to make the entire platform look like shitty tik tok videos where everyone says "f*ck" and "unalive" like some insane dystopian world