So Discord announced that at the end of this month they're rolling out mandatory ID worldwide. They make a few easily falsifiable claims:
- They won't save your ID. So? Once they've fully identified you with the ID they don't need it. They can feed that information to the data brokers run by their investors.
- They are only rolling it out for NSFW content. Sure, and they also said it was only in certain regions, so what's to stop them from continuing to expand it?
- It's to protect children. Sure, they have totally cared about that this whole time. No, this is purely to identify people to create everything from ad targeting to police state monitoring and censorship.
- It will be safe and secure. Bullshit… They already got hacked during the pilot program
https://proton.me/blog/discord-age-verfication-breach
Time and again decentralization is the key to freedom on the internet. Hopefully we will see the expansion of #irc servers again and maybe even a bridge for #nostr to leverage irc protocols…