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'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives (www.techradar.com)

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[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 120 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Stop a calling this "age.verification" and start calling it what it is, "identity harvesting".

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[–] biotin7@sopuli.xyz 15 points 6 months ago

Or "pre-planned doxxing"

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