This just goes to show what a bad actor Iran is. The taliban cannot provide meaningful support support in a conventional war. They only had “success” because they were able to fight an insurgency and even then the amount of soldiers they lost compared to the US was staggering.

Fake money for criminals is awesome I use it when im doing criminal activity online.

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You dont need to know iframes or combos. I do ok on Tekken online not knowing a single combo or any frame data. I just play my game jabbin and kickin duckin and dodging and sometimes i win sometimes i lose. Its fun. The only part I hate about online is fucking Brazil MFers with connection so bad we have to play the entire fight at 5fps.

your internet usage must be very limited.

as the cat or the childless millennial?

anything communication wise its versatile.

Yeah I think these articles are trying to push people to leave discord and not actually reporting a real trend. Even on lemmy where people are far more likely to be halfway out the door or wanting to leave discord its still a low amount saying they left.

Across the 20 servers im in i’ve seen 0 movement. People arent even talking about it.

you need to create an account for everything so that complaint rings hollow. Discord doesnt even have a high barrier as an account can be created in a few seconds and you can use it in the web.

Ok so why do they need discord when they already have this information. Do you see what im getting at here?

Palantir already has full access to the governments data which includes your ID. They dont need to get it via discord changing the way it handles age verification.

you mean the company that already has full access to government data?

source? I completely disagree that this is a result of extreme amounts of lobbying money being injected into politics. The issue is very very popular with the average parent and thats what politicians are reacting to.

Filming people in public is becoming way to socially acceptable. I hate it.

The entire controversy is that its different.

“Its all a conspiracy man, all the way up to the government man, all this is being done to collect more data having a picture of someones face is so valuable”. You do not live in reality and there is no logic to your story. Discord is not accessing this photo so they have nothing to sell. Discord gains nothing and suffers reputational harm for this change. Then the “nefarious” 3rd party age verification company who supposedly stands to benefit the most out of all this. There is fuck all money to be made as an ID verification service, they are not legally able to sell the data and will most likely be automated out of existence in the next few years. Lastly why the fuck would the government suffer reputational harm to do all this to access your ID, you may not be aware but they actually already have your id and sensitive information about you. You werent private on discord before this change and wont be after. Unless you’ve taken extraordinary security measures, Discord should be treated as a public forum.

Its not a change im happy about but its the way legislation is going around the world and it makes sense discord would comply. At the end of the day I operate on the internet under my personal info, i use a cc with my name, i use my personal phone number, i use my email. Im under no illusion that im not identifiable. If thats a red line for you then either dont access nsfw content or dont use discord you dont have to make up a crazy conspiracy to explain the actions.

I think the argument that this is done to collect more personal info is stupid.

how does that change anything?

wow this is just what they need to know who you are… the final piece of the puzzle. You dont think discord can accurately identify most of its users already. They have email, IP, device, port scans of the network, all the people they interact with, contact list scans, social media and online account linking. This only affects a small subset of users and doesnt even go to discord as its done through a 3rd party service.

Thats true but ID companies are not lobbying or making changes on a scale that matters. This change isnt going through because an id company lobbied the government. Its actually a popular position with the constituents of the democracy. Its supported by many different interest groups for various reasons good and bad. To simplify it down to “id companies lobbying the government to earn money” is in my opinion intentionally misleading.