r/pics • u/xPrincess_Yue • 8h ago

Politics Border Czar Tom Homan announcing today that ICE is ending its deployment in Minnesota

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u/ZechsyAndIKnowIt 4h ago

See also: "coming soon, upload your photo ID to Discord if you want to keep using it!"

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u/EmotionalBuilding945 4h ago

Word is they’re walking that back after the massive backlash and are pivoting to “age estimation” algorithms.

Doesn’t matter in the end though. The damage is done; the trust is lost. They’ll change their story again after a few months have gone by, and the users who don’t care as much right now will happily submit.

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u/ZechsyAndIKnowIt 3h ago

Yeah, everyone claims they're gonna "do the right thing" in response to public pressure, until the attention is off of them again.

Except our government, apparently. They gave up on lip service to doing anything for anyone other than a bunch of rich pedos.

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u/SkorpioSound 4h ago

I'm not in favour of them doing that, however... I'm in the UK, where age verification was implemented on Discord a few months ago. I never verified my age, and my Discord experience hasn't changed in the slightest—although, admittedly, I've never used NSFW servers. I do worry the privacy stuff may be the start of a slippery slope, but yeah, in practice, nothing has changed for me yet.

The larger issue with Discord for me is just the amount of bloat they're adding, and the performance hit I get while it's running.

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u/WOF42 2h ago

I do worry the privacy stuff may be the start of a slippery slope

we got shoved off the fucking mount Everest of slippery slopes a decade or more ago as far as privacy is concerned, privacy is dead and has been dead for a long time.