Well, yeah. Discord isn’t exactly at fault here, they’re operating as best they can within the boundaries of a piece of legislation that could be best described as gods gift to the “I-told-you-so” crowd. This breach is exactly what everyone was warning would happen with the UK ID laws, and discord got stung first as they’re one of the few companies trying to adhere to the law in good faith (which, yes, why in hell they’re trying to do this is good faith is a very good question)
Literally days ago i was accessing a nsfw channel and i got “well, you should send to us your ID and things so i can verificate you” and i thought “no way! I don’t want to give my infos, if they have a data breach we are all doomed” and i ignore, well i don’t want to say “i told you so” but…
Well, yeah. Discord isn’t exactly at fault here, they’re operating as best they can within the boundaries of a piece of legislation that could be best described as gods gift to the “I-told-you-so” crowd. This breach is exactly what everyone was warning would happen with the UK ID laws, and discord got stung first as they’re one of the few companies trying to adhere to the law in good faith (which, yes, why in hell they’re trying to do this is good faith is a very good question)
Literally days ago i was accessing a nsfw channel and i got “well, you should send to us your ID and things so i can verificate you” and i thought “no way! I don’t want to give my infos, if they have a data breach we are all doomed” and i ignore, well i don’t want to say “i told you so” but…