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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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[-] MushuChupacabra@piefed.world 7 points 1 day ago

I think that they backtracked after the public backlash.

If i was a shareholder, I'd demand that they fire whoever insisted on this ID verification bullshit.

There is zero chance that they could not have predicted the blowback, and it is all but certain that they were warned to consider the consequences.

Fire them.

[-] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 23 hours ago

Still no backtracking has happened. Must that's happened it's a "clarification", which is basically "we're still doing it, you're getting such a silly baka for thinking we will make the same mistake as to leak again though 😁"

[-] Dhs92@piefed.social 1 points 16 hours ago

They're also claiming most people will not be affected, as they will try to infer your age and only ask for identification if they can't. Still very sus

[-] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 15 hours ago

They said that from the beginning though?

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