[brushfoot]

> Content Filters: Discord users will need to be age-assured as adults in order to unblur sensitive content or turn off the setting. [1]

That presumably includes selfies?

That means that to exchange racy photos on Discord, each person must first record a facial age estimation video or upload identification documents.

That seems dystopian.

1: https://discord.com/press-releases/discord-launches-teen-by-...

[gjsman-1000]

How do you know one party isn’t 15 when the other is 25?

You’re never going to convince a parent or a lawmaker or even me that this is dystopian. Seems like a perfectly reasonable safeguard.

[brushfoot]

> How do you know one party isn’t 15 when the other is 25?

You don't. That's why parents need to be involved in their children's lives.

CSAM is the easy excuse, anyway. That's the one lawmakers use, and most people are against CSAM, myself included, so the excuse goes down easy. But the impetus they don't talk about is monitoring and control.

The answer isn't to destroy privacy for everyone. The government and these corporations don't need to know what you're doing every second of the day.

[Kim_Bruning]

They'll now have kompromat associated with a name, address, and id number (be it social security, BSN, or whatever your country calls it)