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Hey @ACBNational @nationsblind @Unitedblindleaders hope you guys are keeping tabs on these age verification moves by various platforms locking out #blind and #disabled users, #Discord is about to (dragonscave.space)
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Hey @ACBNational @nationsblind @Unitedblindleaders hope you guys are keeping tabs on these age verification moves by various platforms locking out #blind and #disabled users, #Discord is about to start this for everyone and the #OurBlind server already had members in the UK get locked out when that first rolled out there. Would be nice to see some proactive action on this, particularly before other platforms follow suit as they are likely to do, maybe get something figured out that is both #accessible and not a privacy mess, and discriminatory, as providing ID that disabled people are less likely to have is. Deplatforming large online spaces for already marginalized groups is something I would hope you're not in favor of.

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[–] MostlyBlindGamer@rblind.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

Relevant announcement from Discord.

This is going to be a bad time, because both making a video of your face and photographing your ID are barriers.

Living in the land of fancy electronic IDs for everybody, I didn’t even consider the drivers license issue. Not fun.