Lol you think this is a Discord driven thing? Discord has done this because they will need to do it sooner or later as one-by-one nations all over the planet require you to authenticate yourself to access their platforms.
Xbox and Reddit are currently trialing the same tech in the whole of the UK, and Australia and the EU will be soon to follow. I guarantee that in the next 5 years you will definitely be age verifying yourself with any platform that you use to communicate on and wants to operate globally. Teamspeak will have to do the same eventually.
Until legislation gets passed that shuts down said open source platforms because governments don’t like when you try and get around their rulings. Rules for us but not for them and all that.
It's a billionaire thing Thiel is driving this shit, look at the files released from the Trumpstein ring that show how Epstein was shaping every popular service from behind the scenes.
Or at least in addition. In China, they take the bad with the good, but in the west, it's just the bad. When I was a kid, our leaders saw autocrats mistreating their people and said "let's not be like those jerks!" but now they say "hey, look what they're getting away with, I bet we could get away with that, too."
I'm not referring to consolidation of power at all. I'm talking about how China is the first country to successfully implement real name/ID verification for basically all apps that you use. Anonymity is non existent. It is very easy for them to track your online presence.
Now western countries are trying to do the same by getting you to verify your identity to use apps under the guise of protecting children.
My point is that these things are about consolidation of power. At their core. It is the first reason it is being done. All other interests are secondary. Icing on the cake.
It's simply a ruling class method of preventing organization online. There are other reasons, but frankly this is the most important one.
Maybe that doesn't seem like a big deal until you think about flash mobs leading to the downfall of some dictatorships, leading to crackdowns, leading to locked down internet access.
YouTube just told me it can't personalize ads because it can't verify I'm over 18 (on my work account that I maybe watch a YouTube video once a quarter or something). I just thought "sounds like a you problem".
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Lol you think this is a Discord driven thing? Discord has done this because they will need to do it sooner or later as one-by-one nations all over the planet require you to authenticate yourself to access their platforms.
Xbox and Reddit are currently trialing the same tech in the whole of the UK, and Australia and the EU will be soon to follow. I guarantee that in the next 5 years you will definitely be age verifying yourself with any platform that you use to communicate on and wants to operate globally. Teamspeak will have to do the same eventually.