[therealsreal]

It's frustrating how often 'journalism' assumes good faith and uses the language and arguments of corporations.

Rather than "fleeing age-verification" myself, and I largely assume others, are "fleeing surveillance state data harvesting".

[footy]

Yeah, I'm 39 years old, I don't need to flee age verification. I just am not interested in having an account on a chat service that would do this. I don't want my driver's license and biometric information to be stored in servers who-knows-where in a country with weak privacy regulations.

This is an extremely rational position.

[AlienRobot]

Journalism isn't twitter. A reporter just reports the facts, and nobody wants them to do more than that. If they started inserting their assumptions or making conclusions from the facts, that is no longer "news" that is an opinion piece.

[therealsreal]

Odd reactionary take considering the headline is talking about me, a player fleeing, and claiming my reason is something different from my own.

Which would seem to be a failure to "report the facts".

[Stevvo]

It's well proven that Discord age verification does not harvest any data.

[bmn__]

You're wrong.