Tell Discord: online ID checks don’t keep anyone safe. Don’t comply with surveillance and censorship.

Discord age verification now locks stage channels, DMs, and adult content behind four ID methods — each with different privacy trade-offs worth knowing.

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From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...

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Various federal and state bills have been introduced to require age verification for internet platforms. While the purported purpose of these bills is …

Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects...

The law will require social media platforms in France to verify all users age from January.