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smonglytoday at 8:05 AM3 repliesview on HN

Yes, and? This sounds like a guilt-by-association accusation with no relevance.

Anyway, people are free not to use Discord if they don't like their age verification feature. It is one chat service amongst many, not a monopoly.


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xbmcusertoday at 8:21 AM

We need to hold people to account for the company they keep. If your largest investor is known for mining data for fascist regimes and you are in the business of verifying data authentication then it not guilt by association it is the smoking gun and best to avoid

like_any_othertoday at 9:23 AM

"You're free to use something else" doesn't work when it was legal pressure that introduced age verification. All the something else's will eventually be forced to follow.

Aeglaeciatoday at 8:32 AM

the vast majority of the rich got to their position thru sheer ruthlessness. is it irrational to you that this garners distrust ?