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Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy (www.newsweek.com)
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Starting in early March, the platform will place every account into a default "teen-appropriate" experience unless it has proof that users are adults.

The move has brought widespread criticism from Discord users, who are citing privacy and security concerns following a recent breach of a third-party vendor that ended up exposing around 70,000 government ID images used to verify the age of Discord users.

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[-] Tetsuo@jlai.lu -1 points 2 weeks ago

So teen-per-default means that adults can freely talk to teens, which should be prevented.

That's not my understanding.

I get your point but by default if Discord thinks you are a teen it also implies all the limitations associated with that status. Which means some media will be blurred and some commands cannot be done.

An adult can keep his "teen default status" but he also keeps all the limitations associated with it. Which I suppose doesn't mean they can "freely" talk to other accounts as you state.

Notably the DM that a groomer would send will end up in a special inbox for all teens or for that matter "default teen".

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