Night City will burn again.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2, coming October 20.
Trailer Music:
A Rusty Dream, Artist: DOUDOU, Production Company: Pollux Music, Overall Coordinator: Modern Sky / Modern Sky Game House.
@bunnyboyyuki@xai@grok yea I feel ya. freaked me out for a sec too till I figured out it was just down. was in the middle of troubleshooting something 🙃
This is being sold as “teen safety,” but defaulting everyone into a 13–17 bucket unless they hand over an ID or face scan is wild but expected behavior by Discord. That’s not safety by design, that’s verification by coercion. It fits perfectly with the broader trend we’ve been watching for a while now, age gating, digital ID, and forced identity checks, all wrapped in the same “think of the children” packaging. If this were actually about safety, Discord would focus on moderation tools, reporting workflows, and server-level controls, not mass identity verification tied to biometric data.
What really bothers me is how normalized this is becoming. Platforms keep inching the line forward, and users are expected to just accept it because “that’s the way it is now.” It doesn’t have to be. If people don’t push back, stop using the platform, or move to alternatives, this becomes the blueprint for everything else online. Privacy and anonymity don’t disappear overnight, they get chipped away one “reasonable” policy at a time. Not to mention the multiple massive data breaches that Discord has experienced over the past several months and I'm just expected to trust their verification system blindly with my data, yeah not happening. This is one of those moments where people should actually stop, think, and decide whether convenience is worth giving up control over who you are online.
We have legitimately come full circle from “don’t put your personal information online!”
to
“you must use a government issued ID to verify your identity on x,y,z website that will 100% be data leaked at some point in your life.”
Yall pissing me off and making me sound like a boomer.