Too late assholes… I’m already deleting most of the posts I made on my discord and I will be migrating elsewhere soon.

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    24 hours ago

    this is true… its not just Discord… politics are pushing hard on tech… like Facebook, Google, well everything basically… They want to push age verification everywhere.

    Its really dangerous, and I will never comply (even though I have nothing to hide). I already deleted my discord. I will not join back anymore. Its too late already.

    Each chat, social network or anything that is trying to implement this -> ACCOUNT DELETED.

    Edit: Discord’s preparation to go public with an IPO… So go away from discord now.

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      7 hours ago

      They don’t actually care about age verification, they just want the personal information.

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      24 hours ago

      What I’m saying isn’t that you should or shouldn’t delete social media accounts. What I’m saying is that eventually they’re all going to HAVE to do it to be able to operate within certain countries. The account deletion/boycott/etc isn’t enough, you have to go after the political leaders that are FORCING companies into these deals cause governments are GOING to continue to go after companies to force the whole of the internet into surveilling users. Policy and laws need to be changed. The work HAS to be done.

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        21 hours ago

        I just host my own open source instances. Like matrix for chat. And mbin for the fediverse. This is how I now communicate with you.

        No age verification. Mbin will never implement it either. And matrix won’t either. Otherwise I will fork matrix also.

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      23 hours ago

      You must never comply ESPECIALLY if you have nothing to hide. They are treating innocent people like terrorists and criminals and this is not acceptable.

      I pray that the impetus from all this results in overturning all of the (allegedly) anti-terrorist legislation made post 9/11 (post 2000 in some cases).

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        21 hours ago

        You must never comply ESPECIALLY if you have nothing to hide.

        I agree. I just mentioned it explicitly, since I was afraid of responses like… Ow… Do you hide something?

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      23 hours ago

      ahem… politics is NOT pushing on tech…

      tech is pushing and telling politics what to do. tech controls politics now

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        6 hours ago

        ahem… politics is NOT pushing on tech…

        Bullshit. There are plenty of examples of politics pushing on tech and tech pushing back. Tech may have its hands in politics’ pocket, but they don’t have a hand up their backside like you imply.

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        21 hours ago

        Well… I dunno well… I think both. I believe nobody wants to be responsible and they just point to each other 🤔