Comment by dcchambers
15 days ago
As an adult that interacts only with other adults in good faith, it's easy to look at this and feel outraged.
But there is a very real and dangerous situation where children and adolescents are using Discord with zero guardrails, constantly interacting with adults - many of whom are predators. This is happening every day. Millions of children around the world "meet people" playing games online, take the conversation to Discord, and then get brought into a very dark world online that their brains are simply not ready for.[^1]
I don't like the idea of blanket face scans/ID scans with that data stored in perpetuity - but age verification of some kind is a must IMO.
[1]: https://www.afterbabel.com/p/its-not-just-a-game-anymore
Discord has parental controls. There's a myriad of services out there that restrict and monitor phone usage for kids. Use them and lock their phone and discord accounts down to nothing.
Restricting adults because parents decide to give little Timmy unrestricted access to technology is stupid.