{"id":46983176,"user":"Retr0id","time":1770855505,"time_ago":"13 days ago","type":"comment","content":"

My account is almost a decade old and discord is still asking me to complete age verification.","comments":[{"id":46983267,"user":"poly2it","time":1770856144,"time_ago":"13 days ago","type":"comment","content":"

Are they rolling this out in stages? I haven't been asked to prove the age of my account.","comments":[{"id":46983315,"user":"Retr0id","time":1770856408,"time_ago":"13 days ago","type":"comment","content":"

I'm in the UK (where the law allows them to use heuristics).","comments":[{"id":46984012,"user":"rationalist","time":1770861749,"time_ago":"13 days ago","type":"comment","content":"

So VPN to the UK?","comments":[{"id":46984039,"user":"Retr0id","time":1770861938,"time_ago":"13 days ago","type":"comment","content":"

What?","comments":[{"id":46988133,"user":"rationalist","time":1770900343,"time_ago":"12 days ago","type":"comment","content":"

Lots of websites assume you are located in the country where your IP address is, and thus apply the rules for that country. So perhaps if someone wanted to use heuristics instead of uploading an ID, they could pretend to be in the UK by using a VPN.","comments":[{"id":46988152,"user":"Retr0id","time":1770900513,"time_ago":"12 days ago","type":"comment","content":"

Legislatively, the UK is among the stricter regimes wrt online age verification. It's a place you want to be VPNing out of. Discord is apparently rolling this out worldwide out of their own free will, not due to legislative pressures.","comments":[{"id":46989309,"user":"FMecha","time":1770906707,"time_ago":"12 days ago","type":"comment","content":"

>not due to legislative pressures

It's a pre-emptive move against any (potential) legislative pressures.","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":6,"url":"item?id=46989309"}],"comments_count":1,"level":5,"url":"item?id=46988152"}],"comments_count":2,"level":4,"url":"item?id=46988133"}],"comments_count":3,"level":3,"url":"item?id=46984039"}],"comments_count":4,"level":2,"url":"item?id=46984012"}],"comments_count":5,"level":1,"url":"item?id=46983315"}],"comments_count":6,"level":0,"url":"item?id=46983267"},{"id":46986145,"user":"dark-star","time":1770884103,"time_ago":"12 days ago","type":"comment","content":"

maybe it's different per country shrug","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":0,"url":"item?id=46986145"}],"comments_count":8,"url":"item?id=46983176"}

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