• chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    17 hours ago

    Hmm, I don’t recall ever doing age verification for Discord. Were older accounts grandfather’d in, or is it currently limited by region or something?

    • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works
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      11 hours ago

      Any time your account gets locked for age reason it requires it. So if you have never had an age lock it’s unlikely you had to do it.

      It’s as easy as someone reporting you for being underage with no proof or even just saying “I’m 14 and what is this” as a meme to get locked tho.

      Hell the auto flag system can hit you if you just talk like a kid sometimes.

    • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
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      17 hours ago

      I think it’s a UK thing

      They have been passing legislation to basically dox their citizens for them to gain access to the internet

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          15 hours ago

          Yeah it’s like the government want to get sued. They are better than the previous administration but that’s a pretty low bar

      • themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        14 hours ago

        It was obvious things like this will happen, unlike banks and government sites social media sites don’t have strict cyber security requirements and they want these sites to have a government ID. It was a bad idea from the start.

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      2 hours ago

      I believe people from EU UK and people who say they were under 13 and got reported. They needed to send in a pic of them holding their ID to get unbanned.

      edit: UK people not EU