You can’t detain a 5 year old child.
If a masked man grabs a kid off the street and puts him in an unmarked car… that’s kidnapping.
If that child is then sent to another state? That’s trafficking.
Language matters here.
What happened to Liam Ramos should outrage us all.
Discord will age-restrict users from certain features starting next month unless the user sends a face scan or ID.
All accounts will get a restricted "teen" experience by default:
- No access to age-restricted or NSFW servers and channels
- Cannot speak in Stage channels
- Automatic filters applied to sensitive or graphic content
- Warnings shown on friend requests from unfamiliar users
- Direct messages from non-friends filtered into a separate requests inbox
To unlock full adult access, users must verify they are 18+ with one of these options:
- Facial age estimation (a short video selfie processed on your device, not stored by Discord)
- Uploading a photo of a government-issued ID (data deleted after verification)
So... they are making it easier for groomers to identify and find kids, while offering no real protections?
They aren't stopping the Dms from being sent, aren't stopping the friend requests, but are now giving groomers a way to identify kids via setting up situations that they can be identified by what they are excluded from 😑
And now everyone else has to give up their ID for these protections?