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Click here to read the open letter This is the form to sign onto the open letter against the KIDS Act, a package of bills containing age ve
Beyond wild, WTF is discord doing?!? This is beyond out of touch!
Article here:
Discord to block adult content unless users verify ages with selfies or IDs.
We need to hit them hard here and force them to backtrack,
Cancel your Nitro NOW!
Note: If you want to cancel a different subscription on Discord, please check out the corresponding article: Server Boosting, Server subscri
If you haven't heard, Discord recently announced that starting next month, they will require face scan and/or a scan of your ID to access "adult" settings. You will be demoted to teen-access-only if you do not give them this info.
This is absolutely unacceptable, and not necessary at all for their app.
As much as I love my Nitro and Boosting Servers, I have cancelled everything, and I recommend everyone else does too. Also post wherever you can and tell them directly that this is why. (They don't ask you why you're canceling, just beg you to stay, show you all the cool stuff you're gonna lose, and ask if you're sure. Then offer you a discount if you resub right away.)
This hurts everyone in the long run, and absolutely hurts the Queer Community; piling on to many other hurts we've been dealing with. Discord also just dealt with a data breach last year, and now they want us to give them government IDs and a facial scan? I refuse. I'm keeping myself as safe as I can.
A reminder: *Biometrics are not legally protected.*
Consider alternatives like LINE, Stout, Teamspeak, Mumble...
...hey, is Ventrilo still around after all this time? I'll have to look into that one.
"For the children" reasoning has never actually been about protecting children. They've shown us this time and time again. Push back where you can and however you can.
Little cracks break big ships.
Discord is announcing enhanced teen safety features rolling out globally that reinforce its long-standing commitment to creating a safer and
Tumblrs amazing new Mature Content Held At Ransom For Your ID Setting means that you cant actually block any blogs marked as mature bc you can't click through to them to get to the block button 👏 A +++ @staff I'm sure the kids are feeling so safe 👏
IMPORTANT!! DO NOT SCROLL PAST!! Congress is attempting to blitz through almost 20 creepily invasive online age verification bills, including one that’ll devastate online free speech if passed
Age verification bills are designed to make ID checks mandatory for access to social media sites, browsing an App Store, etc. The identification measures are invasive and can include unreliable biometric scans (a scan of your face) and the uploading of your real-life ID. Imagine if your stored ID, which has your full name, address, and photo, were to be stolen in a data breach.
Read more about online Age Verification and the dangers to your privacy it poses here:
Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive
Section 230 is the big one. It protects free speech because it prevents social platforms from being sued to oblivion because of content posted by its users. Basically it makes so social platforms and its users are not treated as the same entity. If Section 230 is repealed, many smaller platforms will not be able to pay off constant lawsuits, so they either will have to heavily restrict user content or face being taken down entirely.
Read more about what Section 230 is and why it must not be repealed here:
Learn how Section 230 protects online platforms from being treated as publishers, enabling the modern internet economy through broad immunit
Call and email your reps to tell them to vote NO on every single age verification bill and to NOT repeal Section 230 HERE!!!
All of the bad internet bills. One website.
Please please share this post everywhere! These bills will affect every internet user if passed. KOSA has shown up multiple times before but was defeated because people were loud. We can defeat it again and the rest of these bills.
Lawmakers wants to now add ID checks on websites in the United States, here is a petition to sign, to stop more id checks from happening
Oh no..Ireland which Presidency starts in July of next year wants to do a EU-wide Australian Style social media ban!!!
In an interview with Extra.ie, Tánaiste Simon Harris said that the Government will lead calls for the introduction of ID-verified social med
Their targets are social media companies whose headquarters are in Ireland that includes...Tumblr too!!!
I'm sorry but whats the point of the Zero-Knowledge-Proof Age Verification App project if you bring this shit up to the table!
Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.
