Gamer fury as Discord begins age verification checks
Australian gamers are protesting the introduction of age verification on the Discord chat platform.
Gamers have attributed Discord’s rolling introduction of age verification – which requires a government ID or video selfie – to the impending under-16 social media ban. The ban will come into force in December as part of the Federal government’s changes to the Online Safety Act.
Discord provides chat, voice communication, and video streaming, and is widely used in the gaming and crypto communities.
Australia is a joke.
Yeah, I’m closer to 50 than 16 and there’s no way in hell I can be bothered jumping through these kinds of hoops. Don’t trust their security with this kind of thing. Plus my Discord account is 9 years old, I’d have to have been under 7 when I made it to be under age. But wOn’T sOmEbOdY tHiNk oF tHe cHiLdReN.
I wonder how many folks complaining voted for one of the parties advocating for this…
Nope, Green.
I am with a mental health support Discord group, and I am afraid that this is goinf to lock me out of my support.
And to nobody’s surprise, their age verification data just got breached.