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    Discord distanziert sich von Altersverifizierungsfirma nach Verbindungen zu Palantirs Peter-Thiel-Oberfläche

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    1. CrispyMiner on

      Bullying corporations for making the dumbest choices is my favorite pastime. We have more power than you think

    2. ChoiceIT on

      Good but also it doesn’t matter who does it or how ethical they are.

      You are creating a threat vector for identity theft for age verification. Not identity verification, but AGE verification.

    3. wavepointsocial on

      Canceling Nitro works, it’s the only way they will see the mistake that is partnering with Thiel

    4. NukinDuke on

      Going to be a tall order to undo the reputational damage they’re inflicting on themselves. 

    5. sillybob86 on

      so the question is though-

      1) are they going to just quitely connect with some other company- maybe a „fun“ subsidiary of…?

      2) If they are backing away, i dig it – but, is that really enough from them? shouldnt we keep up the pressure until??? not that i know what could be next – legally enforible eula that they wont, or ?? I.e, its good that you decided to not press the red button, but we also have to address the very fact that you thought about it, or wanted to?

    6. clherre on

      Does discord have a public contact address where a concerned longtime user of 10 years could politely tell them to mate with a cactus?

    8. ThankuConan on

      Must hurt to watch as your clients vanish because you so completely misjudged their reaction to your hubris. Anyway.

    10. Ok-Mycologist-3829 on

      Any rumblings on where people might be migrating to after deleting Discord?

    15. ghostlacuna on

      That is a little to late.

      It seems the c suits still cant understand how fast trust can be lost

    16. DubsWasASaint on

      The age verification space is such a minefield right now. Every company offering these services needs massive amounts of biometric and identity data to function, which makes the question of who’s backing them actually critical, not just from a PR standpoint but from a data governance one.

      Discord’s smart to distance themselves quickly, but the bigger issue is that most platforms rushing to implement age verification are picking vendors based on compliance checkboxes, not on who actually controls the data pipeline downstream. Thiel’s involvement is the headline, but the structural problem is way bigger than one investor.

    18. lordvitamin on

      The Reptile slinks back into the shadows, waiting for the next opportunity to strike.

    20. discretelandscapes on

      Uhhh… did they post the article with the wrong body, or what’s going here? I see nothing about what the title suggests IN the actual article.

    23. Dismal_Consequence_4 on

      They may distance themselves publicly, but that doesn’t mean that they won’t work with the same company with a more discreet name. I have no doubt that Peter Thiel(an anagram of The Reptile) has a bunch of shell companies to hide his intentions.

    24. CombatMuffin on

      This just breeda incompetence. They keep doubling down on this an doing it in the worst way possible.

      A huge percentage of their audience leans progressive. Them not doing their due diligence shows a stark level of stupidity.

    25. BARKACHU on

      This… seems misleading? Misdirection?

      „Oh wow guys our negative comments really did something!“ and 3 months later when you all forget about this they’ll quietly just slip their little „experiment“ into everyone’s experience. I hope nobody’s falling for this corpo speech.

    26. PreposterousPringle on

      Discord is showing a pattern of negligence to the privacy of their users. First they were breached, and now they’re caught doing business with company known for providing surveillance to a rouge fascist government? How stupid are they?

    27. 0ilup on

      Cancelled my years-long Nitro subscription after this stunt. I won’t be renewing.

    28. Fit-Relationship944 on

      Now they’ll just only secretly sell your information to Peter Thiel

    29. Turtle_Online on

      God Kotaku is trash. What a misleading title.

      TLDR: Discord said that this was part of an experiment that has concluded and user data will only be stored for 7 days.

      This honestly leaves more questions than answers.

    33. Enjoy_The_Ride413 on

      I have a hard time believing that Discord didn’t know all the details. They were hoping the public wouldn’t connect the dots. It’s them trying to save face.

    36. TheArtofWarPIGEON on

      Only cuz they got caught, next firm will still be the same just without the connection visible

    38. shosuko on

      Age verification like this does not protect children

      This is all just an authoritarian push to gain all data on users to be exploited and weaponized by large corporations and governments.

      Vote AGAINST forced verification measures!

    40. design_by_hardt on

      What sucks is that they’ll just roll these things out quietly instead stay vigilant.

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