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All the available paths turn into:

- give us your ID

- give us your biometrics

- give somebody, not necessarily Discord, a valid credit card

That's sll of the paths.

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This proposed solution does however allow quite liberal access to discord without confirming the age. If the implementation is as worded; then i would not see a reason to confirm my age at all.

The issue comes down to if governments accept such a (urgh) comparatively lax implementation. It's pretty clear to me that the primary purpose of these laws are entirely to... force all citizens to identify themselves across the internet for the purpose of profile building, and nothing to do with child safety.

So as implementations go; this one is pretty decent. We should stop governments from passing these darn laws though.

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If the account age estimation puts you in adult, it sounds like you don't need to do any of those?

I'd like to see details about their model there, but account age is at least better than a lot of systems like steam are doing for this.

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Some of those details are available here: https://discord.com/safety/how-discord-estimates-age-without...
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I think it's interesting they limit the types of content they use to determine your age. I'd guess they don't impose those same limitations when it comes to other uses (including targeted ads)
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Sounds like scam.
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They should not be trying to implement it globally. That is unacceptable.
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