alt Hacker NewsDiscord Distances Itself from Peter Thiel's Palantir Age Verification Firm
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Who cares where they outsource the age verification to?
They have no business keeping my ID scan or face in any case. Because there's an 120% chance they'll end up on a public S3 bucket.
Can't we just do this age verification locally on-device? Just some WASM to run a small AI model, which scans face+ID.
I know it'll be easier to bypass, but that does not matter. We're trying to stop children, not adults with technical skill.
Article title, which was a lot clearer than this one: "Discord Distances Itself From Age Verification Firm After Ties To Palantir’s Peter Thiel Surface"
Not sure why you changed it but it makes quite the difference to the meaning.
Notably, by doing this Discord lied in their initial announcement. They originally said [1] that all processing would be on-device, but that's not true for users subject to this "experiment".
1: https://discord.com/press-releases/discord-launches-teen-by-...
The risk in effect is that every message sent on Discord will make its way to Palantir with copy of your ID. This is not a risk that any user should accept. Discord fooled its users once, and it should not be trusted to not fool them again.
I very hesitantly used discord occasionally because some projects I wanted to keep up with moved there
I gave up a few times since I kept getting autobanned by a broken algorithm (i.e., based on my ip or phone number, not anything I'd said) until I contacted their devs and they manually fixed it.
Obviously, I am never going to consider using discord again after this shit-tsunami. Back to irc and signal groups.
Nobody believes that.
Is this the same Peter Thiel who gives lectures on Greta Thunberg being the literal anti-christ?
Oh, the irony of Peter Thiel being involved in age verification, after lunching with Epstein (post-conviction).
"Distances itself" lol what does that even mean? Did they step back from the admin console or something?
"Discord Distances itself from Peter Thiel's Palantir Age Verification Firm" means jack shit if they're still doing business with them.
And Discord has approached this in such a monstrously awful way that I don't know what they could possibly say at this point to make me believe them.
I fully expect Discord will buddy-buddy right back up with some other Thiel-affiliated company if there is a separation if not go right back to them once the heat dies down.