Discord age verification

[firecat]

I guess Discord is going to start requiring users to prove they are over a certain age if they want to access certain content.

I mainly use Discord to keep connected to fanfic fandom, most of which has certain content. And I definitely am not going to upload my ID.

Does this affect you? If so, what are you going to do when it goes into effect?

Comments

[sraun]

Oh, one other thing - reports from some UK and Australia users (where this is already happening) report that getting around it can be as easy as 'rename a channel with nsfw in the name to something without nsfw'.

[shanaqui]

This is not a universal panacea, unfortunately. My wife was blocked from seeing fanart I posted in a channel called "general" which has no explicit terms in the file name or anything. It's a server with only the two of us in it, no channels marked as NSFW at all.

Age verification always happening solely on your device is a lie that they use to make it sound palatable, as proven by the leak of 70,000 people's government IDs. (Some sources claim much more data was stolen.)