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Discord delays age verification rollout after privacy backlash (mashable.com)
submitted 16 hours ago by alessandro@lemmy.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[–] MaulThePatriarchy@lemmy.ca 17 points 11 hours ago

Yuh, did I... did I read that right? The CTO came out, and did allllllll that yapping about how they're "just like us, and sooo in touch with their community"...... just to follow it up with an "actually you misunderstood bro" and then ten despicable paragraphs about how "90% of you shouldn't care what happens to the other 10%". Huh???

There's been three weeks of backlash and the only remotely tangible thing they promised was to double down on this later. Yep, I'm deleting my account.

[–] Mountaineer@aussie.zone 43 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I know Discord has a lot of time and effort into formulating their exact position on this, justifying it's necessity in the most verbose of terms and I want give them an equally measured response:

no

[–] Big_Boss_77@fedinsfw.app 8 points 11 hours ago

I really appreciate the amount of time, requisite thought, and dedication you put in to formulating this response. Well said.

[–] arin@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago

Delaying rape is still rape. Time to leave

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago

“We’re going to wait a few financial quarters then copy a bigger companies ID verification”

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 2 points 8 hours ago

We hear you. We're listening. We just don't care.

[–] FilthyHands@sh.itjust.works 11 points 13 hours ago

Account's already deleted, bozos. I will not be coming back.

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 13 hours ago

The reputational damage has already been done and people still haven't moved to a better and more sustainable solution, so why would they back down now?